bacquito
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desalinization
http://www.ensenada.net/noticias/nota.php?id=34440
Hope this helps with our water problems
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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.
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woody with a view
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what happens to the heavy metals and sludge by-product? pump it into the already filthy ocean off marina coral?
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| Quote: | 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.
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| Quote: | 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?
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woody with a view
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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....
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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.
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| 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!
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woody with a view
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attaboy, attack when the truth evades your grasp....
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just putting it in perspective.
think globally, act locally.
reduce. reuse. recycle.
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woody with a view
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I've got a goat skull zip-tied to the rear of my trailer.
does that count?
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| Quote: | 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.
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Why wouldn't they truck out the waste and dump it in the boonies east of town?
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Spanish Direct translation
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
Bob Durrell
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Only 110,000 volts of juice needed, think solar.........
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