From: david earle <canadavros@yahoo.com.au>
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Sent: Mon, August 2, 2010 4:02:55 PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Peter Garrett protection of whales Bullshit

 

Thanks RM- on the basis of a quick read of the intro and conclusions, a couple of things are apparent from this article: desal as a concept is one of the few options the ever increasing population and ever increasing per capita consumption of the world and Aust in particular have to fall back on it's pretty expensive economically and a thus far unknown quantity environmentally (though my own suspicion is the env cost is likely to be high) Really, it's just one example of the dilemmas of endless human demand bumping up against ultimately finite capacity of the earth to provide. Cheers David --- On Mon, 2/8/10, RM <rob10@liveonthe. net> wrote: From: RM <rob10@liveonthe. net> Subject: Re: [powderworks] Peter Garrett protection of whales Bullshit To: "Powderworks@ yahoo" <powderworks@ yahoogroups. com.au> Received: Monday, 2 August, 2010, 1:25 PM   This is worth reading - at least it is formed up as a proper research paper. http://ses.library. usyd.edu. au/bitstream/ 2123/1897/ 1/Desalination% 20Plants. pdf Many sources of further decent reference material are cited in it if you want to go deeper. My browse of the conclusions and recommendations infer that the brine plume seems less than likely to incur a major impact on sea life in comparison to the greater natural and unnatural influences in the ocean at present that the full and final scenario had not yet been fully modelled and tested so the outcome is still reasonably indeterminate at a scientific level that it still needed (in 2007) a comprehensive research/model to draw more certain conclusions. About the author: http://www.aclca. asn.au/young- achiever- award http://au.linkedin. com/pub/rashad- danoun/1b/ b09/43 I've sent the author a note that I've cited their material here, for if they want to have a look in. RM On 2/08/2010 8:50 AM, david earle wrote:   Hi Phil, More info please - a link to a news article or something. Cheers David --- On Sun, 1/8/10, phil sartorio <oilsrule77@yahoo. com> wrote: From: phil sartorio <oilsrule77@yahoo. com> Subject: [powderworks] Peter Garrett protection of whales Bullshit To: powderworks@ yahoogroups. com.au Received: Sunday, 1 August, 2010, 5:01 PM   Its not news the pappers wont , its been like that since day one trying to stop this thing along this coast , The victorian government have rolled pete on this and this will come back and bite him for years to come , this desal plant will be here for 30 years so look out whales sharks seals sea loins birds and surfers and phillip island penguins