water has always been a human right..in fact it is one of the oldest human rights in existence..even in ancient middle east and afrikka a water well was neutral ground
Before I retired from NAVFAC, I tried to raise this issue with the people backing this project, but nobody wanted to hear it? From Alaska to Mexico you have this clockwise current called the Catalina current. Every waste water treatment plant discharges billions of gallons of contaminated effluent into the Ocean. So as this group removes sodium it should think of really nasty things that are being ignored.
okay, so that means we have no idea if this economically viable or a pipe dream I do know the other types of desalination plants cost a lot per gallon. Aruba is one place where they have no other choice, as they don't have ground water and don't know how to catch the water from the sky or it does not even rain there.
Water that is now twice as high in salinity will be returned to the ocean. Won't this effect ocean turnover, ecology, and evaporation rates? I'd like to hear from an actual ecologist or marine biologist to hear their concerns from this project.
This is the answer to climate change and the water shortage problem. We can lower sea level by drinking it. Let’s build thousands more of these plants.
To expensive! Columbia River has 11times more water than Colorado River -> Move water south! Make a 368m long tunnel from Columbia River to Red Bluff. No pumps needed. CA saved! The USA made great infrastructure, before: In 1913 the 233m the LA Aqueduct opened and The Colorado Aqueduct is 242m long (5 pumping stations) opened 1939. China`s new aqueduct is 716m with 23 pumping stations... A tunnel, no land cost. Make a relative small diameter (cheap/fast to make) tunnel, because if water move fast, it need a smaller tunnel, to move an amount of water. If CA gets water from thenorth, the other can keep more Colorado River water themselfs, and theyr life gets easyer to.
If we were to build a Floating city using recycled plastics and barges to create floats. A floating city to place a desalination plant. Creating Global employment. Cleaning up the world around. By putting a bounty on all plastics.
What's Metro doing? I hope San Diego raiding the Imperial Valley is only temporary. In times of El Nino, it sure would be nice if there was (in place) distribution infrastructure to move water around the State to avoid capacity situations. In times of El Nino, there is already one storage that is rarely at capacity anymore . . . Mead. San Onofre should be reworked for water harvesting needs . . . Diablo also. There hasn't been an incident in California associated with these facilities . . . and I suspect that there is more than politics agitating public outcry. A bit difficult to generate tsunamis on a continental shelf. Thermal AFTER filtering seems a shorter path to more pure water . . . space would be needed. Pendleton has needs that can't be ignored. Cutting through there 'under' the surface could be done.
Brine could be used to evaporate and then mine whatever's left behind . . . OR the brine could be placed in pits to evaporate leaving whatever's left behind forming quarries for later on in time.
The way they explain is very clear. thank you
Access to water should be a human right. Our government can do something! These types of plants should have been built years ago
+MrCOLE1023 Riiight. Because thousands of people dropping dead each day from dehydration....
making water a "right" would mean increasing demand...... when we're already using water faster than the ecosystem can support......
water has always been a human right..in fact it is one of the oldest human rights in existence..even in ancient middle east and afrikka a water well was neutral ground
Before I retired from NAVFAC, I tried to raise this issue with the people backing this project, but nobody wanted to hear it? From Alaska to Mexico you have this clockwise current called the Catalina current. Every waste water treatment plant discharges billions of gallons of contaminated effluent into the Ocean. So as this group removes sodium it should think of really nasty things that are being ignored.
They need one in Cape Town.
How often do those filters get changed?
And how do they know when to change filter?
and?
okay, so how often do they get changed?
100 gallons?
10,ooo gallons?
one million dollars - I mean gallons?
Is there any maintenance data we can view?
they don't have this setup
okay, so that means we have no idea if this economically viable or a pipe dream
I do know the other types of desalination plants cost a lot per gallon. Aruba is one place where they have no other choice, as they don't have ground water and don't know how to catch the water from the sky or it does not even rain there.
I often wondered why California didn't do something like this, and now here it is. A pipe dream becoming reality.
Soooooo.....its 2017 now, how's it working out?
Every other desert in the world with ocean access did this years ago even poor countries but not Good Ole California.
So what happens to all the filters? are they dumped in the trash or they reused?....
Reused
Water that is now twice as high in salinity will be returned to the ocean. Won't this effect ocean turnover, ecology, and evaporation rates? I'd like to hear from an actual ecologist or marine biologist to hear their concerns from this project.
you realize all the fresh water eventually goes back to the ocean too hahahha
Perth Australia uses wave-action turbines to provide 500,000 people with fresh water from the ocean.
This is the answer to climate change and the water shortage problem. We can lower sea level by drinking it. Let’s build thousands more of these plants.
which program can i design ??????
To expensive! Columbia River has 11times more water than Colorado River -> Move water south! Make a 368m long tunnel from Columbia River to Red Bluff. No pumps needed. CA saved! The USA made great infrastructure, before: In 1913 the 233m the LA Aqueduct opened and The Colorado Aqueduct is 242m long (5 pumping stations) opened 1939. China`s new aqueduct is 716m with 23 pumping stations... A tunnel, no land cost. Make a relative small diameter (cheap/fast to make) tunnel, because if water move fast, it need a smaller tunnel, to move an amount of water. If CA gets water from thenorth, the other can keep more Colorado River water themselfs, and theyr life gets easyer to.
I ride past that every day on the train
Shame they didn't go all in and build a small nuclear plant to power this thing.
We are as usual so slow to act on matters that matter lokk at The World's Largest Desalination Plant, Magtaa (Algeria).
Exactly. Poor countries get what they need.
If we were to build a Floating city using recycled plastics and barges to create floats. A floating city to place a desalination plant. Creating Global employment. Cleaning up the world around. By putting a bounty on all plastics.
What's Metro doing? I hope San Diego raiding the Imperial Valley is only temporary. In times of El Nino, it sure would be nice if there was (in place) distribution infrastructure to move water around the State to avoid capacity situations. In times of El Nino, there is already one storage that is rarely at capacity anymore . . . Mead. San Onofre should be reworked for water harvesting needs . . . Diablo also. There hasn't been an incident in California associated with these facilities . . . and I suspect that there is more than politics agitating public outcry. A bit difficult to generate tsunamis on a continental shelf. Thermal AFTER filtering seems a shorter path to more pure water . . . space would be needed. Pendleton has needs that can't be ignored. Cutting through there 'under' the surface could be done.
Brine could be used to evaporate and then mine whatever's left behind . . . OR the brine could be placed in pits to evaporate leaving whatever's left behind forming quarries for later on in time.
No one cares for wild life, my family more important than some fish.