Desalination Plants: Hiring vs Purchase?

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Does anyone have any general cost estimations data that compares hiring desalination plants and purchasing one?

If the desalination plant is the only solution to drought and there are no other options available, is it more viable to purchase the plant rather than hire it (looking at the short to medium term investment - up to 5 years)?

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  1. Desalination is a very poor choice, very harmful to the marine & aquatic life as the reject back into the Ocean from a Desal Plant is 4 - 6 times more salty than Ocean Water. Desal Plants are NOT "green" either, they have a Massive Carbon Footprint, are HUGE Energy Hogs and require a ton of Maintenance & expensive replacement parts, most notably, the membranes.

    Another, much less costly alternative is Solar Distillation Panels. They can produce the same amount of water at HALF the cost, they have ZERO Carbon Footprint, have ZERO Reject & use ZERO grid connected energy & require near ZERO Maintenance.  I've attached some pictures. In the first picture, you can see that Sea Salt is being harvested/produced.

    You can also use the Panels to capture & produce Sea Salt, which can be sold, World demand for Sea Salt is growing at a rate of 7% plus per year. If you did this & had a large enough operation, you would end up making enough money to pay for the infrastructure which means YOUR WATER WOULD BE FREE, and you would create some paying jobs in the process.

    We can help you put something like this together & we can even finance it if you so desire. We have completed projects all over the World. I've included my contact info should you care to discuss it further.

    Good luck to you,

    Respectfully, Parke Blair

    Chairman, GeoSource Foundation

    Malibu, California USA

    (805) 410-2372 Cell

    pblair@geosource.org

  3. Renting (hiring) desalination plants is usually possible for small capacity facilities (usually plants delivering 100,000 gallons/day or less of fresh water).  Based on current market conditions, If you need to rent the plant for a period longer than 8 months, the total rental costs will typically exceed the costs for buying the entire plant, so renting a plant will only be worthwhile if you need it for two to three months only.  The companies that offer package plants also offer renting such plants but usually this is not a large component of their business because except for emergencies, renting plants for long period of time (year or more) usually is several times costlier than buying the plant.

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    1. Thank you very much - This is exactly what I was looking for! This is most helpful.

  6. To all considering desalination please close the loop and have a market or use for the rejected brine that is more saline than seawater, eh?

    In researching the global project to impose a cold-forcing regardless of emissoins by creating a sea-ice refuge in Bering Straits, the water there is too fresh to sink and too warm bringing 30-Twh/year in heat so melts sea-ice there first and freezes last each year.

    A new shellfish hatchery farther south is closed 4-5 months now due to acidification plus runoff my plan is hooking up California's big push toward salination to the needs north and have dispensaries for the brines brought by ship or unused oil pipelines to alter pH and supply the minerals to do it, consider if left where they are they will alter the local sea ecosystem.

  8. Adding to to it- i just see this  COMPARE & BOOK - may be it will help you. http://www.coateshire.com.au/pumps-fluid-management-hire/water-treatment-hire/reverse-osmosis-hire/

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    1. The site doesn't seem to respond or give option for outside Australia