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DelaneyM | 2 years ago

It’s fascinating that this is a paper - we did the math about 20 years ago and have been using excess electricity for desalination in Cayman ever since.

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thechao|2 years ago

Texas tried to do this in the early 2000s; we even built a bunch of desalination plants (here's a comment about this I made recently):

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422172#38424191
Long-story–short (based on my experience with these chuckleheads): it was killed because the current political establishment didn't own the desalination plants, so there was no way they could personally profit off of them; they own oil/gas/fracking & ERCOT.

atoav|2 years ago

Texas generally seems to have chosen an odd path politically, which to me has been strangely highlighted by their failure to supply their own people with electricity. Aside from the usual left-right dichtomy¹ one could start to consider to just elect people who at least pretend to care about the problem. Electricity has become kinda important.

¹: A divide that is seen more as a centrist — far-right divide from my european perspective.

passwordoops|2 years ago

Sadly that's just about true for most things, whether it's city state or federal. God forbid Congress tries to tackle the health care industrial complex, it might hit their portfolio!