Water - Desalination

[Avidcomp]

Someone else has beaten you to it... but this is the way forward for sure

[kanicolle]

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[Shalek]

Love me some water desalination.

[pisoides]

Mmhhhhh, but where you will put all the salt that you will produce?. Again back to the water?. I don't think that want to produce just some litters of fresh water, you want to produce millions of litters!!!. So with that you could increase the water salinity, because you are just getting the water from the ocean and bringing back the salt. We are again in the same and maybe in a worst point than before. In my opinion this is not a real solution, but it is the solution for your personal economy.

[krimurali]

@pisoides Hi I am from Wabag. We are a water company operating from Vienna, Austria. We are into Desalination of seawater with our plants on the coast. Let me try to explain the logic, though what you say is correct, its only correct till the dumping of concentrated salty water back to sea. If you look at it superficially it may seem to be harmful, but did you ever imagine what amount of sea water gets vaporized annually across the globe.

[ImMichaelTaylor]

@krimurali The only real problem with desalination is the enormous energy cost.

[sbflash311]

@ImMichaelTaylor There's also the problem of what to do with the salt. If you throw it back into the water, it could create an imbalance which could be harmful to marine life.

[ImMichaelTaylor]

@sbflash311 " could create an imbalance which could be harmful to marine life."

Yes, it has to be done carefully or the water around the outfall pipes can be significantly saltier . If it's all put into one place it could threaten wildlife. If I remember rightly there has been at least one instance where a plant was large enough and the outfall pipe sheltered enough to change the ecosystem of the immediate area.

Compared to the ecological cost of the energy it's quite small though.

[sbflash311]

@ImMichaelTaylor The bottom line is people need to get water from somewhere and most of the world's water is in the oceans or seas.

[jessprattable]

@ImMichaelTaylor sell it to cold countries for the streets in winter

[krimurali]

It is trillion trillion gallons. By (artificial)desalination of seawater what is getting evaporated is only .00001% thus having least effect. And the corollary is that the water is put to use in the land and fresh water runs to the sea thru rivers and that compensates this meager increase in salinity. The whole system is hence balanced. Hope i have clarified.

[ImMichaelTaylor]

@krimurali That is true, though there are sometimes localised effects in the area where the higher salinity water is put back into the sea. Marine life is sensitive to salinity. Spending a bit extra on the waste water return system is likely to fix that I suppose.

[ProsperityGlobal]

This is what will be needed in Africa, The Middle East, India, China and Latin America in the near future.

[adsense1]

From 1:00 to 1:12 is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

[krimurali]

@adsense1 No think again...

[agisus]

in the stock exchange the production

[ohmylord08]

Thanks for uploading this, you actually helped me with my Water Accessibility project *sparkly eyes* ^.^