You've heard the saying..'when it rains...it pours ?

[Old Navy]

We proposed quite a few desalinization plants 10+yrs ago for local governments, but they were always stopped cold by larger governments due to environmental impacts and skyline changes. We could have watered every yard and every crop within a couple years, but now not so much

What were the environmental concerns an impacts. It is simple process to distill water.

 

[PigButtons]

What were the environmental concerns an impacts. It is simple process to distill water.

Simple in small scale, city sized capacity, not so simple. Water intake kills small creatures, but the biggest problem is the super saline concentrate that is the waste product. The size of the plant itself is several acres and very tall, which of course offends Greenpeace types because of the view. Then there's the energy required, Saudis have many desalination plants because for them energy is essentially free, and people are more important than either fish or the view.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

What were the environmental concerns an impacts. It is simple process to distill water.

Anytime you do construction there has to be an environmental impact study done. Usually it tells how you will mitigate risks like silt fences, containments and so on. They even nitpicked machinery sitting around potentially leaking oil or fuel, birds drinking it, roads coming in and out causing accudents, etc.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

They even listed the potential for a salt waste truck that would be carrying either slurry or filter pressed cakes having a wreck down the road and leaking into a sewer. Its clear from all the reports they just wont allow it period kinda like how we had to install wind turbines over the horizon in oceans so nobody could see them

 

[Bill K]

Lake level rises, only if it rains and there is run off to spill into the river and lake.

Limit hydroelectric production. Lake level rises

 

[Old Navy]

They even listed the potential for a salt waste truck that would be carrying either slurry or filter pressed cakes having a wreck down the road and leaking into a sewer. Its clear from all the reports they just wont allow it period kinda like how we had to install wind turbines over the horizon in oceans so nobody could see them

I remember 30 years ago or so we had to build a large pad with concrete walls on three sides to keep the road salt from leaching in the ground. Kind of ironic because you can literally see the salt flats around the Great Salt Lake from my plant.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I remember 30 years ago or so we had to build a large pad with concrete walls on three sides to keep the road salt from leaching in the ground. Kind of ironic because you can literally see the salt flats around the Great Salt Lake from my plant.

Its about like any other time an environmentalist gets in charge

 

[joshb]

Taking it over the Continental Divide will certainly be a challenge!

Drill baby, drill! Let them build a tunnel like they did for New York City. Which Diehard movie was it?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Drill baby, drill! Let them build a tunnel like they did for New York City. Which Diehard movie was it?

Neihls is dead.