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Re:Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big c... by roughly on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:06PM (#40462191)
The desalination debate is always a little interesting for me - first, I’m curious what they’re pricing in as the lifetime of the plant, because I always hear the capital costs are too high, but that’s a function of total water produced, and second is that the demand for water is pretty friggin’ inelastic, and as a Californian, I’m pretty sure the supply is constrained. I’m convinced that at some point we’re going to be very, very sad that we talked ourselves out of building those plants.
Re:Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big c... by krallja on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:59AM (#40463256)
Call Mark Cuban, make the investments now!
Re:Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big c... by pjc50 on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:37AM (#40464202)
California has plenty of water, it's just dedicated far too much of it to farming in what would naturally be arid areas. It would be politically impossible to make farmers pay the real price for desalinated water, so what might happen is retail customers have to pay the high price for desalinated water while the remaining ""free"" water is routed to agriculture.