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To: DinoNavarre who wrote (200047)	11/22/2019 7:45:16 PM
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San Diego reduced their RO energy costs by 50% by not using high salinity sea water, but instead placing their intake in the brackish Carslbad Lagoon. - carlsbaddesal.com The lagoon is fed by run-off from residential neighborhoods and strawberry farm waste water and is used as a toilet by hundreds of ducks. The costs in San Diego are far lower than they are at the Florida Tampa Bay Desalination plant which also relies on run-off but with a higher mix of seawater and thus higher salinity and larger energy costs. - tampabaywater.org Of course irate citizens have questioned why Florida has not built a $350 billion multi-state water project to build dams in the North Carolina foothills and pay twice as much to pump 'fresh mountain water' to Tampa. Critics have called the Tampa Bay Desalination Project 'a simple lack of stupidity' and a lost opportunity to build something truly wasteful. A similar federally-funded 'welfare water project' could allow arid Midwest farms to bloom by pumping water from massive new dams in North Carolina a hundreds of miles to thirsty Midwest farm which could now raise fruit and nut trees, at only six times the cost of local desalination. Donald Trump has suggested the welfare water scheme can be pumped to the Midwest by Victorian-era coal-powered pumps, a fuel no longer economic to use outside of money-wasting welfare schemes. The Trump Coal-Powered Welfare Farm Water Project would combine two uneconomic activities into one gigantic taxpayer sucking project, destroying our nation's wealth in the name of political opportunism. I can't wait to see how crazy this project makes business people and taxpayers - the project's inherent stupidity will absolutely fry their brains.