Question:
The trouble with "greenies", and people like Bob Brown in particular who isan amazingly retarded wit, is that while they're hell bent on anyonedoing anything to "harm the environment", they offer no practicalalternatives. Like those complaining about the building of a desalinationplant in Victoria for example.

How anyone could object to such a proposal is beyond me but they do, andtheir objections seem limited to "Yes, lets have water but lets get it byother means".

*What* other means for 's sake?

Answer: How about each new home collecting water using their own tanks incorporatedinto each new building and making available a retrofit for existingbuildings. How about scrapping the utterly rediculous baby bonus andsubsidising a project like that.

How about conserving what we have by reducing the amount of water wasted forno other reason then short term costs over long term savings (commercial useof water for detailing is an example, the waste is astronomical and could bemuch better managed)

I don't particularly object to desalination but it's a hopelesslyinefficient way to produce clean drinking water.

Actually, if they followed the idea used in WA for a new combined desalplant and peak load power plant, it's very "green". The design useswave motion to pump water at high pressure into a pipeline going ontoshore. The water can either be fed through a set of reverse osmosisfilters for deslaination or fed into a turbine driving a generator togenerate electricity.

So when you need peak power, you switch to generating power. Off peak,you deslainate and pump it up into water reservoirs.

No massive electrical usage like the desal plant that the NSW gov areproposing for Sydney...