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Invent? This satanist flaunted her inverted cross at the presser this morning. We aren't inventing anything.
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Satanist hive going up in flames, you can't convince me this isn't divine justice.

she's a fucking catholic retard

https://www.cal-catholic.com/in-west-hollywood-she-met-women-who-liked-abortion/

 

[Breadbassket]

An article from 2023 that is relevant given the current situation.

Why desalination won’t save states dependent on Colorado River water​

States dependent on the drought-stricken Colorado River are increasingly looking toward desalination as a way to fix the river’s deficit and boost water supplies across the western U.S.

The search for alternative ways to source water comes as federal officials continue to impose mandatory water cuts for states that draw from the Colorado River, which supplies water and power for more than 40 million people.

Desalination (or desalinization) is a complicated process that involves filtering out salt and bacteria content from ocean water to produce safe drinking water to the tap. While there are more than a dozen desalination plants in the U.S., mostly in California, existing plants don’t have the capacity to replace the amount of water the Colorado River is losing.

“Ocean water desalination has tremendous allure,” said Robert Glennon, a professor emeritus of law and water policy scholar at the University of Arizona. “The thought is that if we can just get the salt out of the water, everything can be fixed. But it’s a kind of siren song that will turn bad.”

Desalination plants are costly to operate, require enormous amounts of energy and are difficult to manage in an environmentally friendly way, according to water policy experts.

The debate over whether desalination could be a solution for the drying Colorado River comes as a historic megadrought grips the western U.S., generating the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years. Water levels in the country’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have hit their lowest levels on record.

The Biden administration has urged seven states in the Colorado River Basin to save between 2 million and 4 million acre feet of water, or up to a third of the river’s average flow. But water managers say that savings will need to be much more drastic as drought conditions worsen in the basin.

Kathryn Sorensen, who directs research at the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University, said that while there’s been some major progress on water conservation across the West, the Colorado River is severely overallocated and the low reservoir levels are “extremely problematic.”

“We have been taking more water from the river than Mother Nature can really provide,” Sorensen said. “The river is a super important resource for all of us.”

The cost of water is high​

Since desalination is a drought-resistant process, some have argued that states with such facilities could make themselves less dependent on water from the Colorado River. But the cost of desalination is high compared to the cost of imported river water and the process requires a great deal of energy to separate salts and other dissolved solids from water.

Large-scale plants require “tens of megawatts” to operate, according to the Energy Department, and energy consumption is the largest component of the operational expenditures of desalination, comprising about 36% of the total operational expenditures.

For example, the Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego, California requires about 35 megawatts of electricity to operate. (By comparison, 1 megawatt is enough energy to operate a small town and 1,000 megawatts is enough to power a midsize city). The plant produces an average daily flow of 50 million gallons, only about 10% of the total drinking water needed by San Diego.

The cost of desalinated water at Carlsbad is estimated at $2,725 an acre-foot, according to a recent analysis by environmental economist Michael Hanemann of Arizona State University. That’s significantly more than the amount the San Diego County Water Authority pays for water sourced from the Colorado River and the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta. Last year, the Water Authority proposed increasing its rate to $1,579 per acre-foot for untreated water in 2023.

“Desalination technology has improved greatly and it’s now remotely plausible to do,” said Jay Lund, co-director of the Watershed Sciences Center at the University of California, Davis. “But it’s only plausible if you’re willing to pay a lot of money.”

Water policy experts have also long debated the possibility of taking water from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, the nearest sea to Arizona. In fact, Arizona officials in December voted to advance the study of a $5 billion project led by an Israeli company to build a plant to desalinate seawater in Mexico and transport it in a pipeline that would cross through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
The company leading that project said it would deliver up to 1 million acre-feet of water to Arizona, roughly the amount that the central and southern part of the state used from the Colorado River in 2022. The first phase of the plan would be a single pipeline that would transport roughly 300,000 acre-feet of water to Arizona, with future pipes supplying up to 1 million acre-feet.
If the desalinated water were to cost between $2,000 and $3,000 an acre foot for the Mexico plant, then the cost could potentially total up to nearly $1 billion each year for 300,000 acre-feet of water. And the cost could reach nearly $3 billion per year for 1 million acre-feet of water.

The environmental costs to desalination​

There are also environmental costs to desalination. In addition to the greenhouse gases emissions produced from the large amount of energy needed to operate, the process leaves behind leftover brine, or concentrated salt water, which can raise the salinity of seawater and damage local marine systems and water quality as a result.

Brine can contain toxic metals such as mercury, cobalt, copper, iron, zinc and and nickel, as well as pesticides and acids that cause irrevocable changes to the environment.

“It’s difficult to bring desalination projects to scale because desalination is extremely expensive and there are real problems disposing with the brine that’s leftover,” Sorensen said.

One study published in the journal ScienceDirect found that brine volumes are greater than most industry estimates, comprising on average a gallon and a half for each gallon of fresh water produced. The authors urged brine management strategies that limit the negative environmental impacts and reduce the economic cost of disposal.

However, the most widespread current practice is to dump the leftover brine back into the ocean, which has led to the death of fish populations and corals as well as damage to seagrasses and fish larvae.

California regulators last year rejected a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach, citing not only the costs of the water but the hazards to marine life and risks associated with sea level rise and flooding.

Desalination will be useful in some areas of the country, especially as operating costs come down and more research is done on brine disposal. But water policy experts have suggested alternatives that are currently less expensive and energy-intensive and don’t pose environmental hazards.

Lund said that fallowing lower value agriculture is a cheaper and better alternative from a national and state perspective, since agriculture uses approximately 80% of the Colorado River’s water. “It’s the cheapest and most sustainable way to bring the system back into balance,” Lund said.

Reusing wastewater, conserving water and encouraging the reallocation of water are other sustainable solutions to water shortages that should take priority over desalination, Glennon said.

“Desalination is not a silver bullet. There are immense challenges,” Glennon said. “We can do it, there’s no doubt about that — but it isn’t the only option.”

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[thhrang]

Besides, even tho they might not be part of the degens, they still always just turn the other cheek, and tolerate the evil, and let it thrive.

You want them to just start shooting people?

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

Fortunately for me and unfortunately for the vast majority of you, the LA fires have not killed me. They have burned practically everything around me and my ER smells like burning flesh and ash.

Hope all of the rest of the West Coast Kiwis are safe.

XOXO. Dodgers suck.
-LikeAStone

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

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she's a fucking catholic retard

i would have to guess she's got a saint peter's cross. peter asked to be crucified upside down, because he didn't feel worthy of being crucified the same way as Jesus.

 

[Breadbassket]

XOXO. Dodgers suck.

They better win another World Series this year to make up for this disaster.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

i would have to guess she's got a saint peter's cross. peter asked to be crucified upside down, because he didn't feel worthy of being crucified the same way as Jesus.

Sounds like an excuse a filthy devil worshipper would use to hide their blatant mockery of God.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Sounds like an excuse a filthy devil worshipper would use to hide their blatant mockery of God.

Spoiler: off-topic church info

actually, the inverted cross was used as a symbol by catholics well before it was used as a symbol for satanists and other heathens.

it's obvious this isn't the wrath of god anyway. it's fire from the grass, that smell is just from the ambient air of LA, not brimstone.

 

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Sounds like an excuse a filthy devil worshipper would use to hide their blatant mockery of God.

she went to catholic school and the university of notre dame. she is 100% not a satanist

 

[GunCar Gary]

the funniest part of this happening, other than the fire itself, is all the californians who are genuinely confused why people are laughing at their misfortune

4Chan's put out a new copy-paste meme out on the Great LA Apocalypse Fire

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even if this specific story is made up, the most tragic part of the fires is the insurance payouts are going to cause an exodus of hippie boomers/gen x and their loser progressive children. like locusts, they will descend on areas all over the country. because they were forced into this decision they will have learned nothing and will continue to demand that their new hosts have niggers and faggots and illegals and homeless forced on them

one of America's largest free-roaming asylums is burning down. we should be building an emergency wall around LA right now to prevent containment breach

 

[Shagedan]

This is really heartbreaking stuff. A lot of very beautiful architecture, gone up in smoke. I just hope Dick Masterson isn’t alright.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Spoiler: off-topic church info

actually, the inverted cross was used as a symbol by catholics well before it was used as a symbol for satanists and other heathens.

it's obvious this isn't the wrath of god anyway. it's fire from the grass, that smell is just from the ambient air of LA, not brimstone.

Catholics are the original heretics. Change my mind.

 

[sadrefrigerator]

Reading through the thread and here's a reminder for people who said this is what Californians voted for
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Same thing as in a lot of Blue States where certain parts dominate the rest so no not all of them did vote for it.

LA largely voted for Kamala and will always vote for whatever nigger has a D next to their name.

This is a stark reminder that voting won't improve your life. It doesn't matter how hard you fill out the trump circle. If you live in CA you will still lose all your possessions in a hellfire, your kids will get groomed and raped by trannies, all while the state takes your money.

 

[Haramburger]

"Desalinization is just too expensive guise :: DDDDD"

It seems there was a choice: to pay financial tribute to niggers, trannies, fags & the homeless, or build things that made you not burn. I wonder if priorities will change going forward?

 

[Breadbassket]

Same Lindsey Horvath by the way.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Exactly. They were dancing on the graves of entire regions a few months ago and while I at least have the courtesy to not wish for the innocent to be burnt to a crisp, I am certainly not going to feel sorry for anyone losing their home that costs more than the combined wealth of the last three generations of most rural families. Texas, Florida, and southern appalachia deserve to kick back with a cold beer and watch their mcmansions burn down without any sense of shame.

This is really what it is. This is the noden day collapse of communism being watched burn to the ground in the literal sense. I am in love with the fact that I don't hear shit about pronouns or any of that shit helping out right now. Cause all of that was made up bullshit that just doesn't do anything.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

"why didn't these tards have water in their fire hydrants?" is not a stupid question, you dumb nigger. it's a basic necessity that wasn't kept up on by the fucking retarded nigger mayor. i don't know what's so hard to get about this. they had plenty of warning from a bunch of outside groups AND people in the california govt telling them they needed to make sure this was taken care of. people voted for fucking fire provisions. they didn't get them.

this is an absolute travesty of government mismanagement that no single individual californian is to blame for, but when this is who you vote for, consistently, for 40 fucking years, a full generation or more, what the fuck do you expect?

you've fed hyper-incompetence into the government system for that whole time, why would it suddenly improve out of nowhere now, when DEI policies are at the highest point of repercussions they've ever been? you seem like you're being willfully ignorant of the problem here.

She a zoomer, she doesn't (or ignores) that this didn't happen on an ongoing basis until Democrats got control of the state. She doesn't (or ignores) blame Willie Brown, groomed by the Democratic Party machine led by jew Phil Burton in the immediate postwar era; lawyer, Assemblyman and SF Mayor (who kept a mistress named Kamala Harris) whose career spanned decades, is how the state was transformed from functioning and habitable to the mess it is today. It didn't happen overnight so there was plenty of warning but no, they were too self absorbed to even think of challenging it at any point.

she's a fucking catholic

So is Nancy Pelosi. There are no real Roman Catholics in California politics.

 

[Space Faring Marsupial]

It's crazy to see these reporters react this way. Usually they're so unaffected.


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"everything up here has been destroyed"
"home after home after home"
"the rebuilding process, you know how that's gonna go"
"This is where I spent a lot of my summer vacations, as a little boy in upscale neighborhoods installing carpet"
"Italian restaurant that is burned"

Because it's not where they live.

 

[Oeselian Chad]

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You want them to just start shooting people?

No, I would prefer sth less traceable and more destructive, like arsony. But if the optics of shooting people that are a detrament to everyone, wouldn't be as bad as they are in this cuck world, I would be more than fine with that as well.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Sunny and warming up, about 55 now at 10:40 a.m.. Wish it would rain, here and in SoCal, but nothing in the forccast for at least a week.

I don't believe in miracles, divine wrath, or anything of that sort, but I do enjoy funny coincidences and I would be tickled pink if it started raining good and hard around 9 AM Pacific Standard Time on January 20th.