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> Private money would build these plants if allowed. By replacing one environmental problem with another: > The commission's staff experts said the facility w
by sgift 4y ago
> Private money would build these plants if allowed.
By replacing one environmental problem with another:
> The commission's staff experts said the facility would destroy marine life in about 100 billion gallons of seawater per year, and the company's ability to mitigate that damage with wildlife habitat restoration fell far short of state requirements.
- biztos 4y agoFrom the same article: > Environmentalists have long said desalination harms ocean life, costs too much money and energy, and the plant would soon be made obsolete by water recycling. Well if that's true then awesome, let's get busy recycling water and "soon" we won't need to desalinate! I actually wonder (yes, I'm not an expert) whether at some point drinking water will be valuable enough that you could profitably build a desalination plant in international waters and then deliver the water in tanks to the thirsty citizens who can pay for it. If you bottled at the source, maybe it wouldn't be more expensive than importing from France or Fiji?