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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How much water is consumed by humans directly as drink or in food when eaten, of which only some will be excreted? (Some will be perspired.)
Is he an idiot or a grandstanding politician?
Oh! wait – those are the same things. 🙂
The governor should visit one of those special clubs where gentlemen (sometimes leather-clad) will recycle their urine onto his face. Perhaps his taste for recycling will be satisfied.
My engineer daughter worked on a plant that could do this. The water ended up pure distilled water, making it unpalatable. So make it drinkable, they added trace minerals. The plant was built to satisfy environmentalists.
The plant worked, but was shut down. It requires a lot of energy to run. As seen from comments above, the thought of where the water comes from, not what it actually is nor how clean it is, puts the unscientific off and people wouldn’t drink it. Finally, contrary to the environmentalists claims, it rained, and rained, and rained so hard it flooded.
The belief that the source of the water makes it undrinkable is to me just as unscientific and crazy as fanatical warmist beliefs, or even skeptics who can’t do there own reading.
I would not object to systems like what they have in Orange County, where ultra-treated sewage is sent to perc ponds to help buoy the aquifer.