$297 Million Calif Green Jobs Project Complete Flop

Elmer Fudd · Aug 17, 2015

No one seems to care either:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150817/us-green-energy-promises-9d6a0af60a.html

Hummmm......how much of that $$$ could have gone to a water desalinization project? Naaaaa....not politically sexy.....

I hope they all choke on dust....

waltky · Dec 18, 2015

North America's largest desalination plant opens in Carlsbad, Calif....

California Desalination Plant Hopes to Ease Water Crunch
December 16, 2015 - North America's largest desalination plant opened earlier this week in Southern California, which has suffered severe drought conditions for the past four years.

The plant in Carlsbad, which has been under construction since 2012, cost $1 billion and will produce 50 million gallons of water per day for roughly 400,000 people in San Diego County. Supporters consider seawater desalination a partial answer to drought in the U.S. However, opponents say high costs and threats to marine life leave better alternatives, such as recycling and conservation.

Desalination plant

Poseidon Water, which developed and owns the plant, has signed a 30-year agreement with San Diego County Water Authority. The company estimates households in the region will pay an additional $5 per month on their water bill to help offset the cost of the plant. As big as it is, the Carlsbad plant barely cracks the International Desalination Association's list of 50 largest seawater plants, which are mostly in the Middle East. The plant uses a technology called reverse osmosis, which uses powerful pumps to shoot ocean water through 2,000 white fiberglass tubes to capture salts. Before that, however, silt and other solids are removed to prevent membranes from clogging.

The Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, Calif., north of San Diego, is the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere and the latest one to come online worldwide.

Peter MacLaggan, Poseidon Water project manager, said, "Every two gallons of seawater that go into the plant, we produce one gallon of fresh water. One gallon of double salty water that goes back to the ocean gets diluted on the way out of the plant so it does not harm the marine environment." Treated water is pumped uphill on a new 10-mile pipeline to San Diego's existing grid. The San Diego water agency said the plant will provide about 8 percent of the region's drinking water. Bob Yamada, water resources director, said desalination "is not going to be a silver bullet that solves all of our problems," but it has better positioned the region for drought.

Opponents argue conservation
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sawyer · Dec 18, 2015

Apparently Califs green jobs are like Obamas shovel ready jobs, complete illusion and hoax.

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