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130 comments on Desalination - Energy Down the Drain

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Debbie Cook on March 2, 2009 - 11:17am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I don't know what the status is but I don't see it happening in California. As a friend recently commented about nuclear power: "From too cheap to meter, to too expensive to matter."

In California the proponents often suggest they will use solar energy. If the goal is to use as much energy and resources as possible in producing marginal water, then desal is the way to go--we'll hit the wall at 100 mph instead of 90. The cheapest new source of water is the water we don't use.

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robert wilson on March 2, 2009 - 11:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

More on "too cheap to meter" English was not his first language but the late Petr Beckmann still had an interesting prose style - as those who read his books, blog and newsletter well knew.

http://www.fortfreedom.org/p06.htm

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Debbie Cook on March 2, 2009 - 12:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I forgot about an early '90's proposal by Metropolitan Water District:
"In the early 90s Metropolitan Water District, So. Cal. Edison, General Atomic and Bechtel were planning a nuclear powered desalination plant, tentatively to be located along side the power generating stations in Huntington Beach."
Debbie

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