Here's something I don't get: Why don't coastal states use it more? Literally sitting right next to an extremely large body of water and yet not using it to filter and become drinkable/farm worthy water, and they're choosing not to use it.
California not using desalinization
Matthew Watson
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Zachary Smith
It costs ten quintillion dollars
Joshua Gray
OP, explain to me how the desalinization process works pls
Sebastian Rivera
>tranime garbage
Camden Sanchez
The issu3e is dealing with the brine run off
Andrew Morgan
If you ask californians, that is chump change to them. So, whats the problem?
Chase Nguyen
Monika posted acknowledged
Elijah Foster
How the fuck would using desalination to give citizens unlimited cheap water fit in with their plans to many you own nothing, live in a pod and eat bugs?
Ryder Richardson
Throw it back into the ocean
It'll solve itself
Xavier Robinson
Based Hiroshima.
Jackson Parker
we gotta pay for wetbacks and their little mojadito's schooling. and housing. and food.
Evan Walker
look up prop 187
Ryan Reed
Just produce salt with it.
Camden Morales
>If you ask californians, that is chump change to them. So, whats the problem?
If a bullet train is too expensive for them, you think desalinization plants to cover the water needs of 40million people is within their budget?
Cheaper to just divert water away from the shitter states
Aiden Campbell
He doesn't know shit about desalination and how insanely expensive it is because he's too busy watching japanese cartoons.
Cameron Wood
that's awesome
Hudson Sanchez
Desal is extraordinarily energy intensive. It works on nuclear subs and aircraft carriers, but not for whole towns. Also, you have to get rid of the brine waste, which would be substantial. Not something you can just bury in the backyard
Mason Anderson
A jewish judge said the measure was unconstitutional and threw it out.
Juan Lopez
Can’t you just heat water til it boils then catch the vapor in another container and condense it there? The salt doesn’t go with the steam, right?
Aiden Young
Yeah you have to pressurize water next to a plastic membrane. It's super expensive
Asher Perez
>Cuba
What?
Adam Wright
Heat it with what energy? Are you talking about boiling a lake sized quantity of water?
Carter Williams
Water credits are politically useful and lucrative. It also keeps housing prices artificially inflated. Desalination would ruin the elite economy.
Mason Thomas
>brine waste
Are you fucking kidding? It came from the ocean, dump it back
Juan Nguyen
To be fair, the french have little need to remind themselves of what easter is and spain has always been full of moors
Julian Martin
If this concept works out in Saudi Arabia it could help California's water shortage quite a bit. Just have to find a use for the brine
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Austin Russell
>It works on nuclear subs and aircraft carriers, but not for whole towns
Maybe not in your primitive culture