How 1,500 Nuclear-Powered Water Desalination Plants Could Save The World. Sep 5 2022 05:42PM more by lamar
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Several countries have implemented nuclear desalination, including India, Japan and Kazakhstan. The latter operated a 750-megawatt thermal power plant for over 25 years. This plant not only generated desalinated water but also produced heat and electricity.
How 1,500 Nuclear-Powered Water Desalination Plants Could Save The World From Desertification.
Shhhhhh, the California Coastal Commission might hear you.
Those fucking cunts said they're ok with desal
Just not this one, lol
Somebody should turn off the water to their homes.
“The project has undergone 20 years of environmental planning. It’s certainly the most extensively studied desal facility in the state, if not the world, and it has been approved by multiple agencies including the State Lands Commission, including the Regional Water Quality Control Board,” Moore said".
The problem with all these California commissions is they never have to come up with a solution but they can put the brakes on anything needed for the public.
They can approve the most hare brained of ideas that no one wanted but will kill anything no matter how desperately needed.
We’re going to get salinization plants here. If well-planned, it’s a no-brainer. Those bozos are just delaying things, which will translate into a continuation of our water shortage problems.
The Caiforniastan commies in Sacramento putting a solution in place to a real problem which affects everyone in the state? I’ll believe it when I see it. We have to promote free transitions to everyone first. Provide free abortions on demand first. Ban plastic straws first. Ban travel to red states first. Ban gas-powered cars and lawn mowers before having a grid that will support electric vehicles. You know. Real problems that our betters insist we should care about.
Oh, and defund the police. Because …. Rrrrrracism. In California.
Great idea... Nuclear fuel giving us water, electricity?... 👍🇺🇸
This would save the world from the climate extremists blocking roads and bridges.
Then we have the problem of the people in charge of doing things in Sacramento... With the bullet train and getting rid of plastic straws on the list of "accomplishments" I have little hope unless the effort is privatized and we keep CA bureaucracy mostly out of the way.
Instead of complaining about it on HX, why don't we all send an email to Newsom suggesting they put a hold on the Bullet Train and divert those funds to Nuke/Desalination to fix a more urgent problem in CA instead of getting people from Sacramento to Disneyland faster!
The real problem is Orange County residents.
You Orange County pussies are never satisfied. You fucks are the biggest crybitches in the whole USA. Always crying about something and everything.
Not to mention the OC has the biggest biggot population in California.
"Instead of complaining about it on HX, why don't we all send an email to Newsom suggesting they put a hold on the Bullet Train and divert those funds to Nuke/Desalination to fix a more urgent problem in CA instead of getting people from Sacramento to Disneyland faster!"
Doesn't every post on this site get forwarded to Newsome?
If not, why the fuck not?
Anyhoo dipshit, OP wasn't com-plaining.......just man-splaining, you trans types have no chance of grokking.
there is now only one operational nuclear power plant left in California.
even though it has run without any problems since the 80s officials want to shut it down due its
the twin 1100 MWe reactors produce about 18,000 GW·h of electricity annually (8.6% of total California generation and 23% of carbon-free generation), supplying the electrical needs of more than 3 million people.[5] The plant produces electricity for about 6 cents per kWh, less than the average cost of 10.1 cents per kWh that PG&E paid for electricity from other suppliers in 2014.[6]
In 2016, PG&E announced that it plans to close the two Diablo Canyon reactors in 2024 and 2025, stating that because California's energy regulations give renewables priority over nuclear, the plant would likely only run half-time, making it uneconomical.[3] (Nuclear plants are used for base load in order to spread their large fixed costs over as many kWh of generation as possible.)[3] In 2020, experts at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) warned that when the plant closes the state will reach a "critical inflection point", which will create a significant challenge to ensure reliability of the grid without resorting to more fossil fuel usage, and could jeopardize California's greenhouse gas reduction targets.[8][9][10] In 2021 the California Energy Commission and CAISO warned that the state may have summer blackouts in future years as a result of Diablo's closure coinciding with the shutdown of four natural gas plants of 3.7GW total capacity, and the inability to rely on imported electricity during West-wide heat waves due to reduced hydroelectric capacity (from the decades-long drought) and the closure of coal plants.[11] A 2021 report from researchers at MIT and Stanford states that keeping Diablo Canyon running until 2035 would reduce the state's carbon emissions from electricity generation by 11% every year, save the state a cumulative $2.6 billion (rising to $21 billion if kept open until 2045), and improve the reliability of the grid.[12][13][14][15] Full decommissioning of the plant is estimated to take decades and cost nearly $4 billion.[16]
It seems like closing the plant would be a really bad move, hopefully we can get the politicians to understand this position.
as to desalination plants - there is one in Carlsbad, though not powered by nuclear power.
I heard Catalina also has a small desalination plant.
Lots of neat developments going on in desalination. Solar, graphine membranes, forward osmosis and others. Still not cheap but getting cheaper on the back of the development sponsored by the mega plants going into Saudi and Neom mega city.
You guys are fucking tools. The HB desal plant needed better engineering than it had. They made a great deal of changes to make it safe for sea animals and humans.
I worked on it. If you have no idea how it works or why we changed it. SIT DOWN AND STFU. You have no idea.
Just not "this one" because their friends, cronies, buddies, and cohorts are not getting contracts to build it, run it, and the CC is not getting their standard kickbacks. Letting that desal plant be built would establish a precedent that the CC does NOT want set.
^ True BUT ... there are many chemicals that are fully soluble in water.
Which is what we're seeing in every fresh water resource in the U.S. Pharmaceutical waste can't be removed via traditional methods and can be found in most fresh water lakes, rivers & streams along with so many other pollutants.
In a survey done in the 90's on the nations fresh water resources, lakes rivers streams reservoirs even ground water etc., not one was found to be pollutant free.
If those pollutants are affecting wildlife, which they are, they are also altering the people that are using/drinking it.
California's wettest winters will dump an estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain. But much of it is simply going down the drain.
In what has become a source of much concern in a state prone to droughts and water shortages, the vast majority of rainwater in urban areas flows into storm drains and is eventually lost to the Pacific Ocean.
When you look at the Los Angeles River being between 50% and 70% full during a storm, you realize that more water is running down the river into the ocean than what Los Angeles would use in close to a year, said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. What a waste of water supply.
Mark Gold - Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA
Mark Gold, D.Env.
Director; Deputy Secretary
Ocean Protection Council at the California Natural Resources Agency; Oceans and Coastal Policy
300 La Kretz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Mark was recently appointed by Governor Newsom as Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy as well as Director of the Ocean Protection Council at the California Natural Resources Agency.
