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desalinization

bacquito - 5-6-2014 at 10:26 AM

http://www.ensenada.net/noticias/nota.php?id=34440

Hope this helps with our water problems

vgabndo - 5-6-2014 at 05:49 PM

It isn't going to do much for the environment when solar works, but 110 thousand watts of electricity will be required to run the system. Where from? Mexico just let the contract for a big natural gas fired power plant for Ensenada. Info from the CFE website.

[Edited on 5-7-2014 by vgabndo]

woody with a view - 5-6-2014 at 07:55 PM

what happens to the heavy metals and sludge by-product? pump it into the already filthy ocean off marina coral?

bajaguy - 5-6-2014 at 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
what happens to the heavy metals and sludge by-product? pump it into the already filthy ocean off marina coral?


The Ensenada DeSal plant will be next to the Caliente Casino, South of Home Depot. I would imagine the outfall will be west of that into the bay.

mtgoat666 - 5-6-2014 at 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
what happens to the heavy metals and sludge by-product? pump it into the already filthy ocean off marina coral?


It's the same metals that were already in the ocean. Every day immense amounts of water evaporates from the ocean, leaving minerals behind. Does a desal plant amount to more than a drop in a bucket?

woody with a view - 5-7-2014 at 04:36 PM

no, but pouring concentrated sludge right back into the ocean isn't cool. think about your local sewage treatment outfall. most people flush it and forget it but the chiit runs to the sea....

bajagrouper - 5-7-2014 at 05:13 PM

From :

http://www.paua.de/Impacts.htm

The process of desalination is not per se environmentally friendly and seawater desalination plants also contribute to the wastewater discharges that affect coastal water quality. This is mostly due to the highly saline brine that is emitted into the sea, which may be increased in temperature, contain residual chemicals from the pretreatment process, heavy metals from corrosion or intermittently used cleaning agents. The effluent from desalination plants is a multi-component waste, with multiple effects on water, sediment and marine organisms. It therefore affects the quality of the resource it depends on.

mtgoat666 - 5-7-2014 at 09:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajagrouper
From :

http://www.paua.de/Impacts.htm

The process of desalination is not per se environmentally friendly and seawater desalination plants also contribute to the wastewater discharges that affect coastal water quality. This is mostly due to the highly saline brine that is emitted into the sea, which may be increased in temperature, contain residual chemicals from the pretreatment process, heavy metals from corrosion or intermittently used cleaning agents. The effluent from desalination plants is a multi-component waste, with multiple effects on water, sediment and marine organisms. It therefore affects the quality of the resource it depends on.


desal brine is assuredly a lot less harmful than emissions of every limp dicck that drives an suv or pickup truck when they could get by with an econo car. nothing more hypocritical than a surfer driving an inefficient vehicle and complaining about once through cooling water or desal brine!

woody with a view - 5-7-2014 at 09:32 PM

attaboy, attack when the truth evades your grasp....

mtgoat666 - 5-7-2014 at 09:36 PM

just putting it in perspective.

think globally, act locally.

reduce. reuse. recycle.

woody with a view - 5-7-2014 at 09:47 PM

I've got a goat skull zip-tied to the rear of my trailer.

does that count?

DENNIS - 5-8-2014 at 07:05 AM

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Originally posted by bajaguy

The Ensenada DeSal plant will be next to the Caliente Casino, South of Home Depot. I would imagine the outfall will be west of that into the bay.



Why wouldn't they truck out the waste and dump it in the boonies east of town?

Spanish Direct translation

durrelllrobert - 5-8-2014 at 07:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bacquito
http://www.ensenada.net/noticias/nota.php?id=34440

Hope this helps with our water problems


Note published on May 6, 2014
for Karla Lorraine Lick

At the latest in June the Secretariat of Communications and Transports (SCT) will deliver the authorizations so that the company Water of Cove, it initiates the works in the federal marine area, reported the director of the work Enrique de la Plata Saavedra.


Before members of the Managerial Coordinating Council of Cove (CCEE) he(she) told that the construction process will last 2 years and a half, six months to prepare detail engineerings, 12 for the execution of work and one year for the delivery process. It would be ready to beginnings of 2017



On the permissions that are missing on the part of the town hall, he(she) told that in these days they will deliver to Cadaster and Urban Control, a project that will include a timetable on what they are going to work, where they are going to work and the opinion about Civil defense in case of risks.



The businessman admitted that worry exists, because Cove has serious problems with the water supply, and has forced the State Commission of Public services of Cove (Cespe) to ration the service across(through) a tandeos program.



The businessman indicated that the papers(documents) are delivered and they are studying it. Remarks have been done, additional information has been delivered. Any world is very concerned, inside the Semarnat, Congua, and negotiations are done in the DF.



The underground work, he will pass for the Westman, Pedro Loyola and they rise for Emerald up to the tanks of “The Rooster”, Márquez de León and Revolution for water delivery.



Also the electrical(electric) installation will cross the street Garden(Orchard) up to the Boulevard Zertuche to come to the connection of the line(figure) of 110 thousand volts high tension that is what wants the desalination system.



On the possibility of increasing the capacity of the silver to 500 liter

bajagrouper - 5-8-2014 at 07:55 AM

Only 110,000 volts of juice needed, think solar.........