Posted on 12/27/2007 7:55:08 PM PST by grundle
Ping!
The greenies will fight this just like they fight the nuking of food. They are a sorry lot.
I can’t find a reason why the greenies and peaceniks will fight it.
“Experience shows that nuclear reactors can be used to heat seawater in a process known as “reverse osmosis” to produce large amounts of potable water.”
Reverse osmosis involves pressure and membranes. The process the author seems to be describing would be “multistage flash distillation”.
Because they are NUTS!
It puts too much salt back into the ocean. Honestly, that’s what they say. Harms the aquatic life. Not that I believe that.
I wish you were right but I am sure the environmentalist will have pictures of baby seals indicating they will die of dehydration if we desalinize seawater.
I would even bet AlGore will feature a beached whale in his movie about it.
I wish I was being sarcastic......
A cameo appearance?
lol
now that you mention it........
Reverse osmosis is driven by electric current not heat. Other then that quibble the article is correct, nuclear power is definitely the way to go. It can generate steam to power turbine driven generators and supply process heat to distill seawater.
Reverse osmosis units are available in sizes suitable for a single dwelling and can turn any water source into portable water. I would think that distillation would be more be more efficient then RO for a municipal scale water supply.
Regards,
GtG
With federal government leadership? Ha! If you want leadership then look to the free market. The government would only get in the way.
You’ve never heard of DSRO or Ovation, have you?
It is called a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. If you have electricity or if you have steam then you can desalinate water. No more research is needed.
I’ve suggested this for years.
dagnabit!~
Greenies will say that it will make the oceans too salty, but at the present time they say global warming is diluting the oceans. This is a way to counter their arguments. Desalinization will counter balance the diluting of the ocean from Global warming(so the argument would go). Use their own arguments against them. If we had Republican leaders with a set of ba*** instead of bunch of castrated steers they would think of things like this to counter and push for what they should know is right.
Every enviro reason I have seen not to do this easily proven wrong or manageable.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912586.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/16977/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uof-ndt121604.php
There are many interesting things happening with this. I have also read about a new pump design that cut the required energy for desalination by 90%. If anyone can find a link to it please post it. Thanks.
I would hope that common sense would have broken out by now, but this *is* politics we're talkng about.
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