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re: Corpus Christi: Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water
Posted on 10/13/25 at 4:37 pm to bad93ex
Posted on 10/13/25 at 4:37 pm to bad93ex
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If anything ever should be funded as far as research it would be this process. Would be very helpful not only here in the United States but across the globe.
Any process is energy intensive, there is no free lunch process no matter what. And aside from producing water, it's the waste products that are a huge problem. Salt only has so many buyers no matter how cheap. Pumping the waste back into the ocean isn't an option either, it would create no-go zones for marine life. Just like those that promise cheap clean water via atmospheric condensers, the economics and energy inputs just don't work out.
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 4:44 pm to PCRammer
There is nothing green about the vast majority of these projects. We are going to cripple ourselves by missing away all of our water. Looking at you NLA.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 5:21 pm to ragincajun03
One of my old neighbors, from when I lived there, got fined $1000 for watering his lawn.
I think one of the other neighbors pimped on him.
I think one of the other neighbors pimped on him.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 6:16 pm to Crow Pie
Because then no one could afford their products.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 7:56 pm to Suntiger
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Water out of the gulf yes, but does the same go for river water out of the Mississippi at the Exxon plant? That’s what I was asking about.
Ah, no need with river water. They don’t pull out enough of anything to really worry about moving anywhere. They simply cry about the cost.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 8:01 pm to 777Tiger
You wouldn't be able to pay anybody to take the brine after a very short time. The energy required to run a desalination unit is one problem but dealing with the brine is insurmountable. It won't work.
Don't live where there isn't water and dont use evaporative cooling for industrial shite and data centers.
Don't live where there isn't water and dont use evaporative cooling for industrial shite and data centers.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 8:28 pm to ragincajun03
quote:Native pictured:
Corpus Christi, TX
(and you’re welcomed)
Posted on 10/13/25 at 9:07 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
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Yep... stepdad was the head of projects department at the refinery... they actually pump cleaner water back into the river versus what they take out of the river... less sediment, less chemicals, less debris
Higher dissolved solids
Posted on 10/13/25 at 9:33 pm to WavinWilly
Except they are trying to dump brine from the desalination plant into Baffin Bay, one of the best fishing environments in the world, and will ruin it because they’re too lazy/cheap to pump it out to the ocean
Posted on 10/13/25 at 10:03 pm to LSUDad
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Did you know Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge removes Mississippi River water and uses it in their refinery operations?
How much is Exxon paying you to spread propaganda?
Baton Rouge Water Company says industry needs to stop drawing water from aquifer
Attempts to force big industry off Baton Rouge water
Industry Overuse Puts Capital City Drinking Water At Risk
This post was edited on 10/13/25 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 10/13/25 at 10:08 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
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refinery... they actually pump cleaner water back into the river versus what they take out of the river... less sediment, less chemicals, less debris
What do they do with the sediment, chemicals, and debris they remove from the river water?
Posted on 10/13/25 at 10:13 pm to alajones
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Will we ever embrace desalination plants?
Musk needs to work on this to get the cost down
Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:40 pm to HillbillyTiger
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How much is Exxon paying you to spread propaganda?
Only posting the truth. I said, they use City Water, well water and River Water.
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HillbillyTiger
Name checks out.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 12:51 am to GumboPot
quote:Given it's Texas, it might be more likely they'd deregulate the water rates for consumers, and use tax revenue to subsidize the industrial users.
Well if the drought continues and water resources get worse the industrial users may be forced to install closed looped systems to stay open. Oh well.
Ain't that America?
Posted on 10/14/25 at 2:06 am to tokenBoiler
There's a Data center breaking ground near Amarillo that's going to have water issues as well.
I'd like to know what's said in these backroom negotiations, where a company knows full well there aren't resources available to maintain long term operations and yet they greenlight the projects.
I'd like to know what's said in these backroom negotiations, where a company knows full well there aren't resources available to maintain long term operations and yet they greenlight the projects.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 2:08 am to PCRammer
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The amount of water needed is what ultimately killed it.
And the tax credits that drove it are gone now, right?
Posted on 10/14/25 at 2:13 am to GREENHEAD22
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We are going to cripple ourselves by missing away all of our water. Looking at you NLA.
Meh, they can put intakes on the Miss River or one of the tributaries and install clarifiers. Did it for the power plants we built up there in the late 90s.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 4:17 am to Joshjrn
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Because the sludge is, as one would imagine, hyper saline. It will absolutely murder (practically) any organism it comes into contact with, including “salt water” sea life.
So whomever finds an economic use for the sludge will become a billionaire?
Posted on 10/14/25 at 4:46 am to TxWadingFool
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I'm somewhat involved in this situation. There are ways to do desalination responsibly, but of course they are more expensive so no one wants to pay to do it the right way. Until they decide to pipe in the water from offshore and discharge the brine several miles offshore they will never get the first piece of dirt moved for a plant. All of their plans (at least 5 of them now) to date would have the de-sal plants dumping anywhere from 35 to 50 million gallons of brine discharge into the local bays, that is a non starter for a lot of influential folks. Environmental tourism is a multi billion dollar industry annually along that part of the coast, killing it off to feed the plants water is a non starter.
The simple fact that the above is something corporations still consider as an option is what is wrong with them.
Dumping brine waste into local bays - WTF?!?
I’m pro-business - but only to point - and this is the sh*t that plainly explains why corporations need more oversight and environmental regulations.
Yeesh. F*ck those guys for even THINKING it could be a possibility,
Posted on 10/14/25 at 6:03 am to bad93ex
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desalination plants?
Would be a better investment than green energy initiatives.
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