RD Water Power

I got on the Rush Limbaugh Show on April 7. RUSH: This is Charles up next in McLean, Virginia. Welcome to Open Line Friday, Charles. How are you? CALLER: Good spirits, Rush, longtime listener, since 1995. First-time caller. An honor to speak to you. Im here to say that a lot of Americas problems would go away if President Trump made a speech in whi... ch he promises to collapse the cost of converting saltwater to freshwater, a process known as water desalination. If he promised to do that in just seven years, say, farming any desert on the planet would become economic. As a result, in time the deserts would turn green and the size of habitable earth would double. RUSH: Hang on here just a second. This is a fascinating premise, but the desalinization of saltwater, you know, this is now done by nuclear reactor on our nuclear subs. RUSH: The Saudis have couple desalinization centers for the royal family, well, and the citizens, because theres no rain, theres no water there. They have to desalinate. RUSH: But it requires incredible amounts of energy to do it, and it is expensive as hell. Now, your theory is if we could bring the cost down RUSH: you could turn the oceans into a source of freshwater, and therefore there would never be a drought anywhere and you could market the water in the ocean and sell it and create a brand-new economy with it? CALLER: Correct. And the reason is, well, the cost of desalination is roughly a third energy, a third capital costs, a third maintenance costs. Whats happened, that nobody has noticed in the last 10 years, is that literally a miracle has happened in Israel. They had a drought starting in about 2000. They responded to the drought by collapsing the cost of desalination from $2,000 an acre-foot to $500 an acre-foot. They send the water first to their cities, and then they clean it up a little bit RUSH: Right. Look, Im 20 seconds from running out of time. Since you bring up the Middle East, the problem there is that the Palestinians are not gonna believe it. Theyre gonna believe ...Read More