On 2/28/2014 6:45 PM, Todd wrote:
On 02/28/2014 04:57 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Higgs Boson wrote:
On Friday, February 28, 2014 1:00:27 PM UTC-8, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Higgs Boson wrote:



Just a thought: With all that Pacific Ocean out there just

off-shore, why not scale up successful Israeli desalination

technology via a Manhattan Project-sized program.



HB



Cost in money and greenhouse gases would be the obvious answer, not
that the

later seems to bother too many.



D

Uh, let's look at those factors:

Cost: If Nature (or global warming) continues to dry us up out here
on the West Coast of the U.S. how else are we going to get water for
nearly 40,000,000 in California alone, not counting other affected
states like Arizona & New Mexico. Thirty years since James Hansen
told Congress exactly what would happen and when, it is coming true
as predicted. Even the most corrupt legislator will be forced to
listen to their constituents rather than continuing their long,
well-emunerated love affair with Big Oil, Big Coal, and other
constituents of global warming.

Greenhouse gases: Not sure I see the relevance, but have a look at
what's been happening in the Middle East.

The relevance is that RO is very energy intensive and unless you source
your power from non-fossil sources you will be compounding the problem.


D


Here is an alternative:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/13724437/...age-drinkable/

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWW!!!!!!

Me thinks I will drink bottled water.


In the community where I live and adjacent communities, parks, golf
courses, school playgrounds, and greenbelts are irrigated with
"reclaimed" water. The water is the output of our local sewage plant.
Even though some of the irrigation systems spray the reclaimed water
into the air, it is still considered safe for human contact.

In Los Angeles, the Japanese Garden in the Sepulveda Basin is irrigated
by the output of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant (a sewage plant).
Actually, the garden is over-watered. The excess seeps into the aquifer
that underlies the Los Angeles River. While the river itself is often
little more than a trickle, the underlying aquifer supplies about 10% of
the city's drinking water. Given what residents of the city dump into
the streets, the reclaimed water is likely better than the river flow.
After a rain storm, swimmers and surfers are warned to stay out of the
ocean near the river's mouth and near the mouths of other water courses
along the coast.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary