This is a thoughtful — and complex — piece you wrote. Nice work putting big imagery, practical ideas, and moral direction together. Below I’ll compare the main elements of your Texas Water Prophecy (2018–2024) to real, verifiable developments in Texas (floods, energy shocks, water planning, desalination, solar, SpaceX expansion, population growth). I’ll be explicit about where your vision maps closely to facts, where it’s speculative or symbolic, and what practical trends/constraints matter if someone wanted to act on those ideas.
I’ll highlight the five most “load-bearing” claims from your writing and give direct sources, then summarize the overall match and practical implications.
Five load-bearing claims from your piece — and what the record shows
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Texas learned a lesson from a big snow/ice event that exposed energy fragility.
— Match to fact: Winter Storm Uri (Feb 2021) caused massive power outages and exposed weak weatherization and fuel-supply fragility in Texas. Investigations and policy reviews followed. (ScienceDirect) -
A widespread expansion of solar (the “black specks / solar panels”) across Texas.
— Match to fact: Texas has been a national leader in installing large amounts of solar capacity (and remains a leader in wind). Texas added very large solar capacity through the 2020s. Recent industry reports confirm Texas led U.S. new solar capacity in 2024–2025. (SEIA) -
Desalination and coastal plants expanding as a way to supply water statewide (water desalination sprouting along the coasts).
— Match to fact: The Texas Water Development Board and other agencies have studied desalination extensively; Texas already operates municipal desalination plants and is actively planning more (brackish and seawater desalination studies and proposals). Desalination is on the table as a regional option, though scale, cost, energy use, and brine disposal are real constraints. (Texas Water Development Board) -
Texas is vulnerable to catastrophic flooding (your “blackness” and water scenes), but long-term infrastructure response can interconnect water delivery across the state.
— Match to fact: Catastrophic flooding is already part of Texas history (Hurricane Harvey 2017 is a striking example). Post-Harvey construction in floodplains, continued population growth, and floodplain management issues make flood risk an urgent, ongoing concern. Texas is simultaneously planning and funding major water infrastructure projects and debates (including large pipeline and interregional proposals). (nesdis.noaa.gov) -
SpaceX / launch-site expansion in Texas (multiple launch platforms / daily launches).
— Match to fact: SpaceX’s Starbase (Boca Chica) in South Texas is active and has been expanded repeatedly; the company has sought higher launch cadence and further site expansion. Environmental reviews and permitting shape cadence and number of pads. (Wikipedia)
Overall comparison: where your prophecy aligns with observable trends
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Very close / evidence-backed
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Texas suffered a traumatic grid failure during a snow event (2021 Uri); that shock did lead to policy reviews and political conversation about resilience. (ScienceDirect)
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Solar rollout is real and large in Texas; growth continued into 2024–2025. Solar + storage is a plausible energy source to help power distributed desalination or pumping. (SEIA)
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Desalination is an actively studied, existing, and growing tool in Texas’ water portfolio (both brackish and seawater systems), though it’s not yet a single, state-wide solution. (Texas Water Development Board)
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SpaceX’s Starbase exists in Texas and expansion/launch-cadence increases have been under review, making your “more launch platforms” image reasonably prescient. (Wikipedia)
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Partly aligned / plausible but aspirational
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“Solar pays for the majority of desalination costs.” Technically feasible as a design point (solar + storage powering desalination is done elsewhere), but in practice desalination’s capital and grid integration costs, plus brine disposal, mean the economics need careful study and scale-up. TWDB and local utilities are investigating economics and feasibility. (Texas Water Development Board)
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Symbolic / speculative (hard to verify)
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Imagery like the “blackness” that envelops Texas and the moral/purification framing are visionary and interpretive; they’re not testable scientific claims.
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Predictions about mass migration, doubling the population in a short period, and spiritual causes for geopolitical moves are outside empirical verification. (That said, Texas is growing rapidly; Census estimates showed Texas passing ~31 million in 2024.) (The Texas Tribune)
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Gaps, limits, and real constraints worth noting
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Flood risk is increasing where we keep building in floodplains. The Houston Chronicle and others have documented new development in flood-risk areas after Harvey, which creates ongoing vulnerability to future floods. That makes the “need to interconnect water and resilience” idea more urgent. (Houston Chronicle)
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Desalination scaling requires cheap, reliable power and environmental handling of brine. Solar + storage could supply power, but ocean desalination at scale needs robust infrastructure, costs, and coastal permitting; brine disposal impacts must be managed. TWDB documents this tradeoff. (Texas Water Development Board)
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Grid and fuel resilience lessons from 2021 are real and ongoing. Fixes require investment and policy; some progress has been made, but vulnerabilities remain. (NSF Public Access Repository)
Practical takeaways (if one wanted to act on your writing today)
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Invest in distributed water sources and redundancy (desalination + aquifer recharge + interregional pipelines) — the TWDB already recommends building options; funding and the politics are the hard parts. (Texas Water Development Board)
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Pair solar and storage with water projects so desalination and pumping are resilient and low-carbon where possible; pilot projects could prove the concept before statewide scale. (This is the practical technical link behind your solar→desal intuition.) (SEIA)
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Stop building in high-risk floodplains / enforce stronger floodplain rules and update mitigation mapping. The Houston case shows how risky continued development is. (Houston Chronicle)
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Protect critical infrastructure (water, power, comms) with weatherization rules and redundancy lessons from Winter Storm Uri. (ScienceDirect)
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Plan for population growth: Texas’ population is already expanding fast (30–31M range), so pre-emptive water and housing planning is urgent. (The Texas Tribune)
Short synthesis (one paragraph)
Your prophetic image mixes moral urgency, a clear reading of technological trends, and large, practical engineering solutions — and on many concrete points it aligns with what Texas has actually faced and planned for. The 2021 freeze taught the state painful lessons about energy resilience; solar growth and desalination planning are real and growing; SpaceX’s South Texas footprint is expanding; and flood risk is a continuing, documented problem. Where your vision goes beyond current data (the exact scale/timing of greening, or morally causal claims), those notes remain interpretive. Practically, your prescription—use solar to enable desalination, interconnect water systems, and protect infrastructure—fits what engineers and planners are recommending, even if the timetable and costs are challenging. (ScienceDirect)
If you’d like, I can:
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Turn this into a short sidebar you can paste into your blog that cites the sources; or
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Draft a simple “action checklist” for Texans that ties your prophetic language to practical civic steps (policy changes, pilot projects, what city governments can do); or
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Dig deeper into any single point (desalination costs & technology, solar + storage economics, floodplain policy, or SpaceX’s permitting history).
Which of those would you prefer next?
To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.
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