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Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer
I'll save you the trouble. 88 pages, zero mention of desalination. 🤡 🌎
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California Department of Water Resources
@CA_DWR
Today we’re celebrating the release of the State Water Project’s Adaptation Strategy! The Strategy describes more than a dozen actions the SWP is pursuing to address the damaging effects of climate change. Join us as we take a deeper dive into five of the most impactful
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State Water Project Adaptation Strategy
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lucelio
@louie_kangeter
It's so insane to me that people just dismiss desalination out of hand. "It's too energy intensive" just produce more energy bro
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CT Lucero
@CTLucero194512
California only became what it did because of an enormous amount of geoengineering and infrastructure. The populations who did that have mostly left and it has been decades since the state showed the ability to execute on these projects - it even fails to maintain the old ones.
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Jared Lambert
@jared__lambert
Who celebrates the release of a strategy? Celebrate when your strategy succeeds! Unless coming up with the strategy is the main purpose of the strategy?????????
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Holger Isenberg
@areoinfo
Especially strange as desalination of ocean water is one of the best use cases for photovoltaic energy as no battery storage is needed and the resulting water can be stored easily. The only current discussions about desalination here in the area of Silicon Valley is about their
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Andrew Lindberg
@AndrewatL5
California has a lot of land not suitable for anything but huge farms of solar panels and desalination is the perfect application for solar power. No storage needed. I want to terraform Mars.. But let’s do it here first. If California had some vision and the will it could
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Trey Picou
@treypicou
we could end the water problems anywhere in the US with desal. can even pump it to landlocked states without needing to invent new technology. sigh
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Xirtam Esrevni
@XirtamEsrevni
They seem like goons to me... I'm not very informed in this area but I was once arguing with an "environmentalist" about how absurd it is that LA draws the majority of its water from Owens valley & Co. River and how that is just as bad for ecology as desalination... I actually
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Carlos I Sempere Chen
@SempereCarlos
Guys, the State Water Project (SWP) is specifically the system that sells water from CA rivers to water agencies up and down the state. Any new sources of water would be under the same department (DWR) but not part of the SWP.
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Unimportant 🧈
@Unimportanz
Desalination fails in California because it would be used primarily for residential areas which would lead to the expansion of those areas. This threatens the agricultural interests. You will need to work with AG politically for desal to be a thing.
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☀️Garrett🌵
@garrettjsawyer
It does mention desalination once as a reference to another document, but I'll save you the trouble... This State Water Project Adaptation Strategy document serves a separate purpose from California's Water Supply Strategy document, which mentions desalination several times.
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Bob Hotchkiss
@Bobthegoatroper
Steps 1. Aquaduct from the Pacific that gravity drains into the Salton Sea Basin. 2. Wait for evaporation and natural cloud formation 3. It will rain more often. 4. Mg metal recovery and SO4 plants to generate $ 5. Maintain system.
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司徒
@szetoinsitu
Refill the reservoirs with treated gray water. The ocean can wait its turn for gray water. God knows it’s a pain in the ass to pull salt out afterwards.
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Proximal AI
@ProximalAI
Desalination: 1. Boring Co builds inflow-outflow tunnels miles off the littoral to mitigate environmental concerns 2. Treated wastewater used to flush the brine and 4x the amount of water desalinated 👍
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