Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has a plan to combat climate change, and to help the State of California absorb an extra 10 million residents: Implement space ship like closed system recycling of waste water, such as urine, to allow the water to be recycled repeatedly.
According to Brown;
“We are altering this planet with this incredible power of science, technology and economic advance,” Brown said. “You have to find a more elegant way of relating to material things. You have to use them with greater sensitivity and sophistication.”
Brown said that, as California struggles to meet a mandatory 25 percent reduction in urban water use, technology would provide long-term solutions, including capturing stormwater runoff and recycling water numerous times.
“The metaphor is spaceship Earth,” Brown said. “In a spaceship you reuse everything. Well, we’re in space and we have to find a way to reuse, and with enough science and enough funding we’ll get it done.”
Jerry Brown might be happy preparing for his trip back to his home planet, but here on Earth, most of us prefer to drink water from reservoirs, rather than piping it in from the local sanitation plant.
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I just wasted like 3,000 dollars worth of California drinking water last night in the toilet. I was drinking beer. I wish I read this yesterday.
No elaborate technology is needed. Pee into the sea. (Easily done in California, since everyone lives on the beach there. I know this from films starring Sandra Dee and Annette Funicello. ) Nature will do the recycling and return the water as rain or snow. Most of this falls in the North of the state, but it will naturally trickle down to the South.
I’m sure he’ll lick the problem…..
It is said that the water in the River Thames in the UK passes through three people on its way to the sea.
But the problems Brown is facing is the creation of enviro policies. Drought occurs in California and a system of irrigation developed to alleviate it.
If Moonbeam really cared about the water shortage, he would expel the millions upon millions of illegal aliens residing in California. They are citizens of other countries who have no right to be here. They’ve bypassed the folks immigrating legally, and they are a huge burden on the existing water supplies. And they keep ‘flooding’ in by the millions.
But at least things here aren’t quite as bad as they are in the UK.
Expelling illegal aliens is not within the jurisdiction or the authority of the governor of California. It’s a federal issue.
Tell that to the Great State of Texas.
Moonbeam has immense influence. If he wanted, he could make a big difference. But they’re all on the same team, along with the climate alarmist crowd.
Those people are the PROBLEM, not the solution…
He doesn’t have the legal authority.
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These folks can do it http://www.ice.gov part of the DHS
What are you all getting on about? Did you not read the last sentence?
“….and enough funding ”
Forget the pee metaphors, they are the perfect distraction. This is just another run of the mill boondoggle to channel taxpayer money to the well connected. Remember: Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
…. especially a manufactured crisis that took years in the making.
Advice to Jerry Brown : Never, ever, say “We’re in space.”
In space, no one can hear you scream. Here in the U.S., the MSM ensures the same outcome.
I have heard of a place that is very very hot, where water is an extremely precious commodity, there are lots of rolling black outs, and where pale green horrors rule over you. Now I see it is real.
It’s time we upgraded him to Jerry “Uranus” Brown.
Some of us are way ahead of Jer’. I have a lot of respect for the guy, save his climate evangelism. What can you say to those who have heard the voices? Anyway, can’t tell you how many thousands of gallons of water I’ve saved peeing in my vegetable garden. Man, is it green. Guessing 70% me and 30% the increase in atmospheric Carbon dioxide.
Learned the concept back in the 70’s on my first Grand Canyon river trip. See, you are given very strict instructions by the National Park Service to pee IN the river. Whoa! I’d spent a decade backpacking and hiking a third of a football field to pee AWAY from any water.
Pooh is an entirely different matter. Our kidneys approach the efficiency of a reverse osmosis filter, the ones Jerry is planning to use, wisely.
Get over the snark. We need to play smart.
What we really need is clothing that incorporates desalination, so we can drink our perspiration as fresh water. PRV – personal recycling vests.
Soylent Green is Pee-ople!
It looks like Hippy Sunshine’s hairline has receded and revealed…Big Urine Moonbeam salesman in a tie.
Hippy fantasies dictate that environmentalists think up worthless products that no one would buy voluntarily and with enough funding and science, this solves problems. And they fail to notice that when government sells you products, they use guaranteed taxpayer loans to companies created for the purpose of receiving the loan.
But I would think voters if asked nicely would give him the loan on the condition he put his face on the designer bottled urine water and sell it door to door.
And I would think they would approve a nice plant in Hollywood, which has been congratulating itself for putting scat in all their products for many years.
“Clean Water or Dirty Science”
I hope it makes you think,
Millions of children everyday
Have no clean water to drink.
http://rhymeafterrhyme.net/2014/01/09/clean-water-or-dirty-science-its-our-choice/
Don’t worry where the huskies go,
You can eat that yellow snow..
Chris4692
June 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm
The headline is very misleading. […]Nowhere in the article cited is the recycling of urine specifically mentioned.
Yes, and if Gov. Brown had uttered such a thing, you’d naturally expect a hard-hitting investigative rag like the Los Angeles Daily News to be all over it with a headline like maybe Moonbeam’s Tinkle Toys on Tap or something like that, but instead, we have to be content with Eric Worrell’s effort here to gin up a little excitement, which one must acknowledge has produced a shower of potty humor, most of it flushable.
Meanwhile….
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28056793/californias-budget-surplus-soars-new-heights-schools-benefit
…and before that:
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/californias-debt-levels-soar-under-schwarzenegger-5408
Some of you may remember Gov. Gray Davis. When he attempted to put a dent in California’s budget deficit of the time by raising vehicle registration fees a little, Californians went bananas, and that is the real reason for his recall, not the brown outs, which came later, and were the result of outside manipulation by Dick Cheney & pals. Of course, the Governator took the state down the tubes, but none of that matters now when you can have a field day bashing Moonbeam.
You may be drinking bottled water in future, but it’s obvious that you previously drank the kool- aid.
Alan Robertson
June 12, 2015 at 10:33 am
“You may be drinking bottled water in future, but it’s obvious that you previously drank the kool- aid.”
If you have something to say, please articulate exactly or quote specifically what it is you are trying to talk about, instead of just flinging salt from the peanut gallery: “Obvious…” about what, or in what way exactly?
It is obvious to me that Eric Worrall’s commentary here about Gov. Brown’s statement, and recycled urine is entirely a product of Eric Worrall’s imagination.
Some might even call it Yellow Journalism.
I happen to disagree entirely with Gov. Brown and his stance on CAGW, but where I part company with most of the commenters here today is that I do give credit where credit is due, instead of just piling on Gov. Moonbeam with gleeful giggles about recycled pee, as if this were some entirely new, bizarre, and laughable thing, when the truly laughable part is that so many people are seemingly ignorant about the basic plumbing of their own civilization.
I also know that Gov. Brown was speaking metaphorically. I know this through the diabolically clever technique of reading what he actually said, which author Worrall was kind enough to include, but which Mr. Worrall apparently either did not understand, or chose to ignore in the hope of drawing some easy laughs.
I vote for (and appreciate) the easy laughs.
DonM
June 12, 2015 at 6:13 pm
“I’ll make up for my indecision by peeing on his grave.
June 12, 2015 at 6:16 pm
June 12, 2015 at 6:24 pm
“I vote for (and appreciate) the easy laughs.”
A show of hands from the Peanut Gallery is not necessary, nor was it requested.
From comments here – yours included – we already know it’s SRO in there, where laughing is easier than thinking, and potty humor trumps all.
“Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has a plan to combat climate change, and to help the State of California absorb an extra 10 million residents:”
CA already has to many residents (Legal and Illegal) and Gov. Moonbeam wants a plan that adds 10 million more. How about a plan that stops additional new residents and discourages the Illegal residents from staying?
As for combating climate change, RoFL! Mother Nature is going to do what she wants, when she wants, and how she wants, irregardless of AGW ShamWow squad.
There is no hope for California. — Eugene WR Gallun
He should drink it straight like Ghandi.
“Maybe some of you who are in denial about this scheme should write to the governnor…”
Well Zeke, with your keen interest, broad knowledge, and obvious enthusiasm for the subject, I think you’d be the perfect man for the job.
Check out Harris Tweed, a traditional method of recycling urine.
By the time they have spent BILLIONS on projects that don’t work the Californians could have supplied the whole USA with desalinated water .
now there is a thought bottled desalinated water from the gold coast got to be worth a $1.00 a bottle
Here in arid Israel we recycle 85% of our waste water, although that recycled water is nearly potable so we use it for irrigation water in agriculture only. This is an especially effective system when it’s fed through drip irrigation, which we invented.
God example!
Invent drip irrigation … you did not. You just came up with a better hole.
This brings to mind the story of an erstwhile Indian Prime Minister who was known to drink his own urine. A cartoon appeared in the Western media showing him talking to colleagues at an international meeting, with words to the effect: “You go for the grog and I’ll hit the piss.”
LOL … he’s taking the p1ss out of Kalifornians!
US has won a war with urine!
“Urine was used before the development of a chemical industry in the manufacture of gunpowder. Urine, a nitrogen source, was used to moisten straw or other organic material, which was kept moist and allowed to rot for several months to over a year. The resulting salts were washed from the heap with water, which was evaporated to allow collection of crude saltpeter crystals, that were usually refined before being used in making gunpowder”