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SFandH
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Largest Desal Plant in Western Hemisphere to be Built in Rosarito Beach
Found this while searching for Rosarito Beach news.
Located next to the power plant. Water for Rosarito, Tijuana, maybe San Diego.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jun/21/baja-de...
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I think its great, just will be just the start
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For many years, new development in BCS has had to install desal facilities.
I am not about to diss desal, but it does require an amazing amount of electricity to perform its function. With a long time drought on the West
coast, I have to wonder what the trade off is.
If you don't have enough water runoff to power your desal plant, what do you you do.
Climate change is a b-tch.
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There is another one being built for the Ensenada area.
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fishbuck
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I think they pump brackish water and desal that. It the same well but from years of pumping there is saltwater incursion of the aquifer and eventually
makes the water unusable without treatment.
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what happens to the sludge that is removed? it can't be good to pump it back into the ocean?
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fishbuck
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That is the issue. It's basically toxic waste. Usually to the landfill.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
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What"sludge" are you talking about? The effluent from a modern RO plant is water that is 10% saltier than the treatment water. Hardly toxic. It does
use a lot of power but it's a trade off, what do you need most.
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The math seems off a little.
Sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination, a membrane process, has been commercially used since the early 1970s. Its first practical use was
demonstrated by Sidney Loeb from University of California at Los Angeles in Coalinga, California, and Srinivasa Sourirajan of National Research
council, Canada. Because no heating or phase changes are needed, energy requirements are low, around 3 kWh/m3, in comparison to other processes of
desalination, but are still much higher than those required for other forms of water supply, including reverse osmosis treatment of wastewater, at 0.1
to 1 kWh/m3. Up to 50% of the seawater input can be recovered as fresh water, though lower recoveries may reduce membrane fouling and energy
consumption.
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this is what i read: http://www.paua.de/Impacts.htm
but yeah, water is a requirement for life so whatcha gonna do?
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...but ours is one tenth the size: Set to launch operations in 2017, the state’s first utility-scale ocean desalination plant is under construction in
Ensenada, where residents have been subject to water rationing. The $48 million plant, a reverse-osmosis facility, would supply 5.7 million
gallons daily to residents of the port city, part of a sprawling Baja California municipality that includes the San Quintin export-oriented
agricultural region and the wine-producing Valle de Guadalupe.
Bob Durrell
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fishbuck
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I read this too. Scary.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
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What's powering it? Diesel? How much water could one desal with $48 million in solar panels?
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They should just buy the bottles of water at Costco and save the taxpayers money!! 
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Lots and lots of oil. And a huge smoke plume to go with it.
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Desal is expensive water. Takes mucho energy.
Desal water will be too expensive to irrigate landscape. More of the same: developed areas w/o vegetation. Ugly!
Thank god for aqueducts in CA.
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A little research indicates that the plant was converted to gas from oil a few years back. So that helps some.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
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LOL!
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Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  | Desal is expensive water. Takes mucho energy.
Desal water will be too expensive to irrigate landscape. More of the same: developed areas w/o vegetation. Ugly!
Thank god for aqueducts in CA.
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Guess you don't know about the 1 billion dollar desalination plant in Carlsbad, San Diego county.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
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There is an existing electrical infrastructure of NG powered peaking plants located at the border and new HV transmission lines from the solar power
being created in the Mojave. Plenty of power available, some day a gasoline refinery will be built in Baja to replace the ones in the Norte.
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