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Megascale Desalination
MIT Technology Review ^ | David Talbot

Posted on 03/03/2015 8:27:49 AM PST by hauerf

On a Mediterranean beach 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, Israel, a vast new industrial facility hums around the clock. It is the world’s largest modern seawater desalination plant, providing 20 percent of the water consumed by the country’s households. Built for the Israeli government by Israel Desalination Enterprises, or IDE Technologies, at a cost of around $500 million, it uses a conventional desalination technology called reverse osmosis (RO). Thanks to a series of engineering and materials advances, however, it produces clean water from the sea cheaply and at a scale never before achieved ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: desalination; israel; reverseosmosis; telaviv
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To: hauerf

Twenty percent of their water. Talk about a target. I hope it is secure!


21 posted on 03/03/2015 8:49:19 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: hauerf

A great achievement for the Jews. By the way what have the muslims achieved lately? Oh, I remember, More business for the undertakers.


22 posted on 03/03/2015 8:51:27 AM PST by JayAr36 (Republicans. When you compromise with evil, EVIL wins.)
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To: cuban leaf

Sea Salt.
I think the Saudis have plants that virtually give away the sea salt. It is then loaded on ships and brought all the way to places like Portsmouth, NH. There it is off loaded and used for deicing the roads in the winter. However, municipal and residential water treatment systems require salt to treat their water either to kill bacteria or soften hard water. So, there is a market for it.

FYI, our company sells about 700+ truckloads of bagged rock salt, calcium chloride and magnesium chloride/year in the winter for melting ice/snow.


23 posted on 03/03/2015 9:02:26 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

What about metals? Gold comes to mind, but I thought there were a LOT of minerals in sea water.


24 posted on 03/03/2015 9:03:51 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: hauerf

The Isrealis should be importing, via underwater pipe, water from Turkey (who have more than enough) and Califorina should be importing water via pipe from th4e Mississippi River. More than enough water in that basin to feed the west and Texas.


25 posted on 03/03/2015 9:05:20 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: cuban leaf

Salt, which theoretically has uses on icy roads.


26 posted on 03/03/2015 9:09:21 AM PST by tbw2
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To: cuban leaf
What is the byproduct of desalinization

I'm thinking sea salt.........which is all the craze now for salty snacks.

27 posted on 03/03/2015 9:13:47 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: cuban leaf
I am not sure.
I did not do that well in Chemistry. I know there are a lot of minerals in Salt Lake and the Salton Sea. However, I am not sure when it comes to the Mediterranean Sea.

The products we sell come from salt mines in NY. There are many salt deposits around the Great Lakes. American Rock Salt, Morton are the big ones south of Rochester, NY. There is even a mine directly under downtown Detroit. The bagged Calcium Chloride is made by Occidental Chemical or comes from China.

28 posted on 03/03/2015 9:16:12 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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BFL


29 posted on 03/03/2015 9:20:05 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
You can put 3-4 along the coast, run pipelines inland and grow vegetables, fruit as well as expand forests and other vegetation. All of which contributes to scrubbing Co2 and producing oxygen.

Plus, pumping all that water will keep the seas from rising. It's a two-fer!

30 posted on 03/03/2015 9:30:48 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: hauerf
During my several trips to the Arabian Peninsula I've often wondered where they get water to drink and water all those lush plants one sees.It's gotta be large scale desalinization.
31 posted on 03/03/2015 9:42:15 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: cuban leaf

There’s about fifty pounds of gold in every cubic mile of sea water....


32 posted on 03/03/2015 9:43:28 AM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: OregonRancher

There’s about fifty pounds of gold in every cubic mile of sea water....


That seems like a lot when you think about how much seawater would be converted on a large scale for places like California. At today’s value that’s almost a million dollars worth of Gold as a byproduct of a process.


33 posted on 03/03/2015 9:58:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Nation’s largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast?
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plant-goes-up-near


34 posted on 03/03/2015 9:59:13 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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35 posted on 03/03/2015 9:59:48 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: cuban leaf
What is the byproduct of desalinization?

Water that is more salty. They don't produce dry salt; they separate some of the water from the salt water stream, leaving a flow that is more salty back to the ocean.

36 posted on 03/03/2015 10:01:47 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: woodbutcher1963
I think the Saudis have plants that virtually give away the sea salt. It is then loaded on ships and brought all the way to places like Portsmouth, NH.

I believe that is sourced to dry salt mining.

If you find anything that shows the salt is sourced to a desalinization plant, I would enjoy reading it.

37 posted on 03/03/2015 10:03:57 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Water that is more salty. They don’t produce dry salt; they separate some of the water from the salt water stream, leaving a flow that is more salty back to the ocean.


gotcha. So there is no attempt to mine the minerals in the water.


38 posted on 03/03/2015 10:04:27 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: thackney

Water that is more salty. They don’t produce dry salt; they separate some of the water from the salt water stream, leaving a flow that is more salty back to the ocean.


I can see it now: We MUST stop desalinization plants because we have a global ocean salinization crisis!


39 posted on 03/03/2015 10:05:25 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: thackney

Water that is more salty. They don’t produce dry salt; they separate some of the water from the salt water stream, leaving a flow that is more salty back to the ocean.


“If something isn’t done, all the worlds oceans will be like the dead sea!”


40 posted on 03/03/2015 10:06:08 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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