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> It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda It's worse than that, they even don't understand that economics behind this: Carlsb
by Melting_Harps 4y ago
> It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda
It's worse than that, they even don't understand that economics behind this: Carlsbad is on track to pay it's expenses on Poseidon exactly because they're supplying other counties, thus proving it's a profitable business venture. The salt/brine is an issue, but consumption restrictions alone aren't enough when droughts have been going on for 15+ years, and reservoirs are depleting their levels.
I agree conservation should take place, and the fact that their isn't water reclamation infrastructure for those wet years is a f'ing crime! But taking this amount of risk in a (rare) time of surplus is insanity.
Having spent most of my time as an adult in OC I'm dissapointed, but not surprised; this kind of vapid and short sighted decision making is how they allowed SONGS to just store it's spent nuclear material on-site after the decommissioned it. Missing the point of why it was such in the first place.
This is exactly the kind of non-sense why I refuse to go back.
- codefreeordie 4y agoI am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind.
- Melting_Harps 4y ago> I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind. I'm sad to leave it behind every time I visit, it's my home after all, but I realized several years ago that I'm more longing more for a period (90s California was magical albeit extremely precarious) more than the geographic location itself, which as you mentioned comes with the people who run the place.