Furthermore, even 20 desalination plants would only add a cup to California's water bucket.
Indeed, Tampa and El Paso have large desalination plants that are seldom running at full capacity.
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The proposed power plants would simultaneously provide energy to seawater desalination plants in the Middle East and North Africa.
He believed that nuclear power, driving desalination plants, could transform deserts into farmland.
Poseidon's solution is to develop two of the world's largest desalination plants within miles of each other in Southern California.
This plant is a small-scale model of two desalination plants Poseidon is proposing, one for Carlsbad and another for Huntington Beach.
Foster Wheeler could hedge its exposure to fossil fuels by buying its way into the business of building nuclear power or desalination plants.
"There are no carbon emissions while using photovoltaic cells to produce electricity -- then (we can) use electricity to operate desalination plants to produce freshwater, " he predicts.
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Poseidon will probably make out well on this investment, but the risk associated with putting so much capital into a business that is not yet commercially viable means we won't see a building boom of desalination plants in California anytime soon.
Admission to this world of ecofriendly ease the resort has its own desalination and power plants, and wastewater-processing technology does come at a comparative premium.
Natural gas development will drive the construction of additional power generation, desalination facilities, and petrochemical plants, all capital intensive undertakings that cannot be supported using existing financing mechanism accessible to Israel.
On the desalination front Doosan has now built five plants in Saudi Arabia, with five more under construction.
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