Desalination requires huge amounts of energy. That's why they're talking about locating nuclear plants close to urban centres. Their economic models include colocated desalination (after all both coal and nuclear plants are just sophisticated steam turbines) and the cost of transporting water is high. I haven't heard of green desalination yet.spooled1 said:
The big issue is that we keep trying to solve these problems with large-scale solutions. We should be trying to make each societal unit, be it a dwelling or a block of flats or a business building more self-contained. Collect as much rainwater as possible, recycle as much water as possible on-site, generate as much energy as possible on-site. Of course no water or energy authority is going to put themself out of business by sanctioning and promoting such an approach.
After that we can take on the mind-numbing stupidity of growing cotton and rice in inland Australia.
