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The desalination debate is always a little interesting for me - first, I’m curious what they’re pricing in as the lifetime of the plant, because I always hear t
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The desalination debate is always a little interesting for me - first, I’m curious what they’re pricing in as the lifetime of the plant, because I always hear the capital costs are too high, but that’s a function of total water produced, and second is that the demand for water is pretty friggin’ inelastic, and as a Californian, I’m pretty sure the supply is constrained. I’m convinced that at some point we’re going to be very, very sad that we talked ourselves out of building those plants.
- krallja 2y agoCall Mark Cuban, make the investments now!
- pjc50 2y agoCalifornia has plenty of water, it's just dedicated far too much of it to farming in what would naturally be arid areas. It would be politically impossible to make farmers pay the real price for desalinated water, so what might happen is retail customers have to pay the high price for desalinated water while the remaining ""free"" water is routed to agriculture.