Australia has 5 desal plants each costing between 1.5 and 3.0 $bn. Only one is working, four are "mothballed" at a cost of between $500m and $700m a year. Not to mention the cost of "mothballing" the "renewable" energy being used to power them. Actually thats worse - lets hope the need for water coincides with renewables working.
Thats a wacking lot of cash for a wealthy but small country. Money which could be used for quite a lot of other very useful things - probably more useful.
That looks like the world's most effective wealth redistribution program, from taxpayers on middle and low incomes to wealthy investors via useless politicians, much like the renewables "industry".
On top of that Drought patterns haven't
changed in 60 years.
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This is also worth a read - Australia again)
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Common belief has it that this deterioration in productivity is primarily due to the relatively higher frequency of drought in the last decade, but removal of those drought effects shows that this is not the case; there is still an underlying decline in productivity that began years earlier following a production plateau reached in the 1990s.
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On top of that predictions of future disaster is based on those models again, which all seem to be running too hot.
