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Nuclear powered desalinization plants and boom, no more water issues.

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Those actually exist?

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according to AI:

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Nuclear-powered desalination, particularly using Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) or molten salt reactors, is a promising, actively researched solution for treating vast volumes of Permian Basin oilfield produced water. By using high-temperature thermal processes to purify wastewater, this technology could reduce reliance on disposal wells, though the immense energy required (up to 26 gigawatts) makes it a massive, long-term challenge.

Key Aspects of Nuclear Desalination in Texas:

Addressing the Crisis: The Permian Basin generates ~1 billion gallons of wastewater daily, often leading to seismic activity from disposal. Nuclear energy provides the massive, reliable heat needed for large-scale thermal treatment.

Active Projects: Natura Resources is partnering with Texas Tech University (via the Texas Produced Water Consortium) to deploy molten salt reactor technology to turn this contaminated produced water into usable, clean water.

Technical Challenges & Scale: Treating the entire volume of oilfield effluent would require up to 26 gigawatts of power, exceeding the total generation capacity of many U.S. states.
Alternative to Disposal: The goal is to shift from disposal to recycling, potentially providing freshwater for other beneficial uses.

Economic Factors: While high-energy, the Texas State Water Plan includes desalination as a growing, cost-effective alternative for water scarcity.

This approach is highly aligned with state interest in tackling both water shortages and oilfield wastewater management.

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Your commie heroes already tried that share the wealth approach in the USSR. How did that work out for them?

Nuclear is as close to self sustaining energy as we are likely to get.

That plasma fusion **** at ITER and Tokamak or whatever it is called these days is the biggest waste of trillions this world may ever see. We could house, feed, water and electrify the world with what they have wasted and they just had to reset the timeline due to poor QC on a critical component.

Nuclear for everyone, for all! After 60 years of blundering in literal deserts.

I think anytime public funds are used towards a stadium, the local govt should have some kind of participation in the subsequent increase in value of the teams.

Think Arlington/Jerry-world.

Texas should do whatever it takes to pull the billionaires from California and keep them

chris1515 said:

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I think anytime public funds are used towards a stadium, the local govt should have some kind of participation in the subsequent increase in value of the teams.

Think Arlington/Jerry-world.

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I dunno, Trump taking an equity stake in Intel caused much reee of muh socialism.

However, I think Arlington is perfectly happy with the economic impact of Jerryworld and both Globe Life's. Frisco happy with the Star. And now Texans are making their own Star west of Houston.

Meanwhile, I wonder if Chicago wants an equity in the Obaj Mahal. They are nearly half a billion $ into that unfinished monolithic eyesore… and that was to reroute a road and handle the mass volumes of excrement that will flow from that facility.

chris1515 said:

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I think anytime public funds are used towards a stadium, the local govt should have some kind of participation in the subsequent increase in value of the teams.

Think Arlington/Jerry-world.

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I assume the local tax entities benefit from the increase in value of the surrounding real estate anyway.

flown-the-coop said:

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Nuclear powered desalinization plants and boom, no more water issues.

Plus I don't think data centers consume that much water do they? Do they use open loop cooling? Seems like that would kill the blind sewage salamanders.

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Data centers do consume a lot of water. Considering the number of planned data centers in Texas, I personally think it's a big damn issue.

South Texas, in particular, is in the middle of the worst drought since the 1950s. It's really bad down here and only expected to get worse. Existing O&G industry in the Corpus area, which accounts for 50% of America's O&G exports, has already been told to expect a 25% cut in water usage starting this fall.

To be fair, Corpus is run by a bunch of dumbasses that have partially gotten us into this mess, but that doesn't change the fact that water is the most critical resource issue in this state and gets ignored quite a bit.

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Data centers do consume a lot of water. Considering the number of planned data centers in Texas, I personally think it's a big damn issue.

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It depends on how they are designed. Properly built, the daily water consumption does not have to be all that high. Where water is plentiful, they can use designs that use more water (and are probably cheaper than more water efficient alternatives).

twk said:

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Data centers do consume a lot of water. Considering the number of planned data centers in Texas, I personally think it's a big damn issue.

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It depends on how they are designed. Properly built, the daily water consumption does not have to be all that high. Where water is plentiful, they can use designs that use more water (and are probably cheaper than more water efficient alternatives).

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I hope so and this may not be a big impact in North Texas where water is more plentiful, but any new draw on water down here in South Texas is just going to make things worse. Granted, I don't think there are many data centers planned for down here likely because of that very issue.