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Anonymous says:

Remember you had all sorts of wrong dire predictions about water in the middle east and that I argued that desalination could easily be used. Bizarrely you thought it was expensive. Well, proof that everything will be OK and you shouldn’t be spreading fear…

“Advances in desalination and energy recovery technology have reduced the amount of energy needed for desalination by an impressive 75 percent in just the last 20 years.” “The energy needed for normal usage of a full-scale desalination plant would the equivalent of one compact fluorescent bulb on all the time in each customer’s home. During a drought, when the plant would operate 100%, the energy you still only be equivalent of a standard 100-watt bulb.”