• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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I just read the LAPDW urban water management plan. Seawater desalination was excluded from the analysis due to high cost and environmental impacts. Not even considered in their planning. Desal plants are expensive to build, consume a lot of energy and getting rid of the salty concentrate is challenging. Seems like they need the water though.

The plan relies heavily on conservation and recycled water. Recycled water will be mostly used to recharge groundwater supplies that will be withdrawn for treatment to potable standards. The funny thing is that you basically have to build a desalination plant to treat wastewater to make it a suitable potable water source.

Only about 10%of their water supply is local (mostly groundwater). 90% comes from hundreds of miles away (mostly snow melt) through aqueducts and pipelines. 8% of the supply went to non-revenue water including spills, leaks, sludge and water consumed for maintenance of treatment and distribution systems. Another 10% of their supply is consumed by the government.

Long Cat, PE
Australia uses wave energy to pump and desalinate ocean water. Bouys rise and fall with the waves to produce electricity. No external energy required.
 
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Anyone see any competency? Dems like her and Milley like their badges and medals


 



 
Would have been better if they received no notice.
This is a problem I see. Things they are going to do are being announced before taking office. Allows the perps time to do things to avoid what is being planned. Allows OBiden to take precautions or sanitize things they may not have thought of deleting. Don't tell the opposition your plans in advance.
 
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