Comments on: Yes to Desalination

By: Ted Steele, Associate Prof.

Ted Steele, Associate Prof. — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:07:02 +0000

It’s at Pebbly beach about 10 minutes from my house!

By: Tom in SoCal

Tom in SoCal — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:45:51 +0000

Your wrong about the number of desalinization plants in California. There is one on Catalina Island.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:08:43 +0000

What happens when we pay double for water, electricity, food, transportation, personal services?

By: fletch92131

fletch92131 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:17:59 +0000

Here”s hoping that the leads ultimately to adoption of the “space-age” technology called “Slingshot”, pioneered by Dean Kamen, and promoted in the book, Abundance”, as a game-changer for the world’s population. It uses very little energy to transform any liquid, even highly polluted water, saltwater or even raw sewage into high-quality drinking water for less than one cent a liter(I’m copying from the book’s cover insert)

By: Ted Steele, toilet cleaner

Ted Steele, toilet cleaner — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:01:18 +0000

Eyeamok– Are you me?

By: Eyeamok

Eyeamok — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:18:28 +0000

Ltes not forget that Santa Barbara did this some years ago and as soon as it was online and all the bugs worked out THEY SOLD IT TO CHINA, leaving The residents with nothing but a bitter taste in their mouth with no water to wash it down.

By: Ted Steele, The Decider

Ted Steele, The Decider — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:31:50 +0000

These desal plants are enviro nightmares– thank God for the CCC !

By: David Yates

David Yates — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:15:04 +0000

I agree it is about time; I do not agree however that the price has to be so high! technology has come a long way,and as the article says there are over 21,000 desalinating plants world wide (I say lets do some research here, what are they charging and why?) Water is essential to life, and cannot be treated like a product that some CEO in an office somewhere “who might be having a bad day” could arbitrarily cut off the supply or escalate the price.

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:56:50 +0000

I’m fine with desalination and support these projects. However, I don’t share the enthusiasm that the writer and some others here seem to have for them. With me it’s more of a shame that we’ve had to choose such an expensive source of water as desalinization. It’s not something to applaud.

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:29:30 +0000

“And we’d be paying even more were the PUC not artificially suppressing the prices Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric can charge their business and residential customers.”

Hopefully CPUC continues to suppress such prices. Why? Because the aforementioned Utilities are government chartered regional monopolies. I hope I never have to pay whatever price such monopolies can charge for a product that has “inelastic demand”. That would get expensive fast.

“Given the scarcity of water here in the nation’s most populous state”.

I would contend that this scarcity is largely the result of bad public policy driven by environmental elitists. Now the only alternative is more expensive everything. More expensive water, more expensive gasoline, more expensive electricity, more expensive natural gas etc. That’s one reason why I want to get out of California so bad I can taste it. It will soon be too expensive for middle class folk to live here.