Posted on 02/03/2014 6:36:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
Just my opinion of course.
I’m confused by this.
Reverse osmosis desalination plants are in operation all over the world, and have been for years.
Is this a new technology that is less expensive? There is no mention of that in the article.
???
I assume this is from 1914 rather then 2014?
Or is UCLA hiring stupid people again.
Nah, just a prof pimping for attention and relevance and maybe some research money in the midst of a crisis.
Smart people with meaningless jobs do it all the time.
He’s got nothing to sell.
While a number of scientists and environmentalists believe desalination is the technological wave of the future, the debate over when, or if, that future will ever become reality, continues.
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
Yes this is a much less expensive process that requires less energy. Current plants are cost prohibitive to operate in most places
I just knew that JFK could make this happen, what a visionary.
Little doubt about that, the longer they can stretch this out the more money they make and that's what they're after.
I guess sea salt would be a bi product.
Or even a by product.
Or nuclear power?
What happens to the salt?
The desalination plant typically uses three kilograms of seawater to produce 1 kilogram of fresh water. The extracted salt dissolves in the excess sea water used in the process to form so-called brine. The brine is returned to the sea where it is diluted again in its natural medium.
Can salt be recovered?
The usual desalination processes do not provide for such recovery. Whereas they concentrate seawater 1.5 times, recovery of salt would require seawater to be concentrated ten times. Under such conditions the first crystals would appear in the brine. This would require a lot of energy and cannot be justified on an economic standpoint. Today whenever a large surface area is available close to a sunny seashore, salt pans, which make use of solar energy, are still the best method of salt production.
Ok, what is the process? Did I miss it in the article?
They’ll have their cheap desalinization plants producing clean drinking water as soon as the cold fusion reactors are ready to power them.
Here’s some info on desalinization
http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/desalination_report3.pdf
Carlsbad Cal is building a pant which is slated to open in 2016, 16 years after the proposal was approved by the city. Administrative hearings and court processes in which environmental groups got several bites of the apple trying to shot it down.
“A number of environmental organizations, however, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Orange County Coast Keeper, are yet to be convinced of the potential benefits of desalination.”
So...now we have environmentalists standing in the way of fresh water for human consumption, perhaps the only substance without which humans cannot survive.
Seriously upside down priorities.
Environmental whackos are Luddites when it comes to ANY new technology that is even remotely related to the environment.
When did they”Stop”?
“The Hidden Salt Ponds of Chula Vista” (San Diego)
http://voiceofsandiego.org/2008/06/16/the-hidden-salt-ponds-of-chula-vista/
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