Honest question, what's the hardest thing about setting up desalination plants along to coast of California? Is it supplying power, pumping the clean water elsewhere, or perhaps dealing with waste sludge? Is it scalability, aka providing enough water to be with it, or is it purely government and/or greed?
Yes. All of those are legitimate challenges. CA and other states have access to millions of acre-feet of water, just need to get the salt and jellyfish out.
Nuclear power + desalination = many problems solved.
And that's the problem.
Nearly free energy and fresh water would bring about a golden age.
That is the heart of mind of corruption... keeping everyone enslaved.
Hmm couldnt you use the sea water to cool the rods, and also create steam for clean water?
Any free heating drastically reduces costs in desalination.
With enough small reactors, in stages, it is conceivable to refill many water supplies and get even more power generation through hydroelectric when the water comes back down.
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