Solar distillation and desalination of ocean salt water for the masses.

[planetwalker]

Will the contaminants not end up in the sea salt ?

[limey3r]

Though this is a cool idea you need to remember that large scale desalination will change the properties of the ocean in that area and effecting all manner of sea life with lower salinity.

[jondeik]

@limey3r But if we collect the fresh water and keep the salt crystals for our food, how will this change anything?

[JonThm]

The simplest way to remove salt from sea water is to use vacuum deceleration

[libertyphoenix777]

In the sea, is FREEDOM!!! Thanks 4 Posting!!!!!!!

[LAWAGO]

Pumping water requires energy

[headfake]

This will probably only come about with a Resourced Based Economy. Watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward on youtube.

[mudkipping]

One problem I think is that evaporated water tends to lack all the minerals and such that people need to absorb through water for long term healthy survival. It's great for emergencies though.

[snavelie]

The song is Ave Maria I have found multiple attributes to the singer, but don't know who it is.

[DutchinKorea]

We need this in the horn of Africa ASAP. On a mass scale!

[syprix]

what is this song please and thank you :)

[snavelie]

I have seen this work on small scale in a greenhouse that I worked in as a child . There is a constant trickle of condensation down the inside of the greenhouse from the moisture of the plants and soil. That happens in a ventilated system where too much heat is a bad thing. If you sealed the greenhouse off and used some basic solar oven tech IE: a flat black float on top of the water. You could easily evaporate loads of water using greenhouse tech.

[jimmyxtc69]

i like the idea of solar powered water dehumidifiers

[oomblikkies]

This technique will work only in places where there is a huge difference between day and night temperature and the efficiency of such a system will be rather low. I prefer reverse osmosis, but I do not know the typical life time of the membranes in such systems.

[berma26]

Good idea but is it realistic? I mean can it be done as easily as that?

[Mr666logic]

how do u control mold and fungus from proliferating in that habitat?

[FilmsareGreat]

@Mr666logic you would have to contain it in a 99.99% silver or copper basin... as well as that.. the salt water would do a good deal of keeping unatural bacteria at bay.(Ever heard of a salt water pool?) This mechanism would have a self cleaning protocol,,,, although every once in a while you would have to clean the silver basin from salt scum&Clean the glass. You could a) purify the sea salt and sale it or b) recycle to the ocean. beware of chemical leeching plastics and use green house glass.

[Mr666logic]

@FilmsareGreat - awsome... at least ur showing spunk. on the lighter side... silver chalice would be stolen. copper would not do much better... is the a reasonable material other then these?

[FilmsareGreat]

@Mr666logic maybe platinum..although i'm not 100% sure how bacteria growth reacts to platinum... but silver dismantles the reproductive cylce of bacteria. and i belive copper does too.. Stainless steel allows the growth of bacteria..GOod point though..i guess silver would be stolen...i guess a plausible solution would be to have a low frequency electric pulse running through the salt water basin to inhibit harmful growth/bacterial damage to your basin..haha im going to school for engineering

[shamel132]

good idea, but i think that the vapor and the condensate drops will drop the transparency of the glass and so the efficiency. so it could work but for a short time i guess .......GOOD LUCK

[IronRangeSurvival]

I have the answer. STOP SELLING OUT TO THE IMF and being forced into privatization of your countries natural resources; because of elitist pricks you let rule you.

[jondeik]

@IronRangeSurvival While I agree this is one of the main problems here in the U.S., how on earth are ordinary citizens supposed to help this from happening? All of the people with money simply hold on to it by corrupt means and sell out entire countries and peoples just to stay in power. I cannot see a solution yet.

[miasmablk]

the problem with this system however is that the water purified evaporated water still has to drain into the aquifer which would take hundreds of years other wise it is useless pure H20 with 0 minerals. it would be like drinking nothing but RO water for the rest of your life.

[dickmartn]

The panels could be Fresnel lenses adding a tremendous amount more heat to the system. I live in a hot region and solar is used often for hot water in the area. The greenhouse type of distillation is good but slow. Hey, there is good money in selling sea salt.

[KLD2929]

You want to know what holds Capitalism back? Its government itself that holds it back from making things available for people build and sell to people. Just think. How come we in America have only three car companies? Due to regulations that are placed in by government there are few companies that can compete. Regulations are what makes products expensive and less likely for competitors to compete.

[IvoMiniMylk]

besides having drinkable water we would also be stopping the rising of the sea level xD

[DaSquid1978]

@snavelie...systems that produce efficiency and abundance are the enemies of Capitalism....solar has been out for decades...why isn't every roof shingled with solar cells?

[hablerz]

@DaSquid1978 Well said , it does bug me that 30 percent of the worlds land is desert when its totally unnesersary.

In the end it boils down to control , they want to control water , energy and food.

Solar panels however i believe are currently too expensive to implement extensively.

[DaSquid1978]

Because efficiency and abundance are enemies of Capitalism

[jasanpahaf]

ms paint?

[YoLninYo]

this is too simple. the tribesmen of africa and the billions of starving people in bangladesh, india and other nations would not expect anything less than an overly complex osmosis based desalination plant which should cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

where do you come off offering ridiculously simple solutions to these problems? how will we all make money if such things were adopted by the idiots in 3rd world!

give them cake baby! CAKE!!!!

[akv8]

@YoLninYo haha, nice

[m3141592]

This effect can be combined with food crop greenhouses to grow food in desert areas using seawater.

[aaronlikesalex]

hey i just want to let you know that this info is covered up by our government

[snavelie]

Good info! This process could be sped up a great deal by running super heated oil through tubes in the ocean water reservoir. This would require the use of parabolic mirror(s) to generate superheated oil. Maybe the salt could be used for deicing roads? Or refined into table salt and other byproducts.

[OrionSyndicate910]

the salt would not be ready for human consumption without processing. Sea water contains other elements besides water and salt. These include certain things (lead, mercury, etc) that would need to be removed.

[OrionSyndicate910]

there is also a matter of time involved. Yes, clouds are formed through this exact procedure. But, in a small environment like this desalinator, it would take a great deal of time for the water to evaporate by only using sunlight.

This is why distillation or reverse osmosis are the preferred ways of desalinating seawater.

[OrionSyndicate910]

This idea has already been put into real application with such products as the Water Pyramid and the Water Cone.

Don't get me wrong. It's a good method for small communities or individuals. Just not for cities or large towns.

5 stars for the video, though.

[snavelie]

Why doesn't California build miles and miles of these?

[TrEvOrLe55555]

@snavelie Im going to go to Santa Cruz and make these on a massive scale