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California Drought
David E. Ross wrote:
songbird wrote [in part]: the large CWP uses huge pumps to move water from the north to the south which also uses a lot of electricity (some which they regain on the other side from generation but the cost is still high). this is only a small fraction of the water used in CA for irrigation. to move a much larger portion of the Columbia would need many more pipelines than one. that's not a minor expense for pumping, materials to build it, maintenance, etc. The California State Water Project is possibly the largest customer for electricity in the state. i'd believe it because i've come across some of the numbers in recent readings. with the drought it is lowering the ability of the state to generate hydroelectric power and you folks are lucky that the state mandate for solar and wind has increased those supplies as that has helped a great deal, but also it is causing more natural gas burning. somewhat related: as i'd recently been reading up on Owens River/Lake/valley i was interested to come across this in the news: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...514-story.html for something that had been running since 1913 to be shut off until November gives an idea of how deep this drought has become. recent rains/snows in Colorado have upped some of the percentages for runoff so we hope this continued gift from El Nino keeps on rolling... songbird |
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