amandell

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   by amandell 2y ago

   Projects at that scale will never get built - it doesn't matter if it is solar desalination. High speed rail in CA is a perfect analog - way too many ways (regulatory + environmental) to kill projects of this size. The only way somethi
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   by amandell 11y ago

   Solar desalination is a form of "distributed generation" - it bypasses the need for large scale transportation by generating (reusing) water locally. The source water can be the ocean if that is the local resource. Inland, the sou
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   by amandell 11y ago

   "We do not need to live with insufficient water – this is a temporary condition that is curable, just like a treatable disease. Using clean energy to produce clean water is like a vaccine, preventing and even reversing the spread of wa