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CA has strange pockets of pretty well setup infra. Like Carlsbad has a desalination plant, and a modern standby ng power plant

• kylehotchkiss 1y ago
  I wish we’d put some desal plants in the north of the state and start feeding into the CA aqueduct and unlocking more Central Valley farmland
  • andbberger 1y ago
    farming with desal water is insane. even with abundant power.
    • qaq 1y ago
      why ? at scale desal water via solar looks to be very reasonable thing ?
      • ZeroGravitas 1y ago
        Current legal setups generally actively encourage people to waste water that they have property rights to. It would be infinitely better return on investment to reform that and put proper incentives in place, rather than work around it with technology.
      • andbberger 1y ago
        farming requires a _lot_ of water.
    • kylehotchkiss 1y ago
      Leaving otherwise fertile farmland empty to use the lands allocated water on another field is insane, insane problems call for insane solutions