Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?

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if you move or live in a area like a desert and complain about not having water, this problem is YOUR fault. don't frigging live there. modern humans are nitwits. just because you can drive to a location doesn't make it a good place to live. if the earth wanted you living there it would provide you with water.

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Hofmann voltameter is an apparatus for electrolysing water, invented by
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cylinders, usually glass. The inner cylinder is open at the top to
allow addition of water and an ionic compound to improve conductivity,
such as a small amount of sulfuric acid. A platinum electrode is placed
inside the bottom of each of the two side cylinders, connected to the
positive and negative terminals of a source of electricity. When current
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check out the wave powered desalination plant on Garden Island in Western Australia. Wave power is used to directly pressurize the salt water, and thn it still comes out with enough pressure to run turbines to supply the electric needs of the plant.

What about the radiation, that is in the water. Tritium cannot be filtered out.

No...The answer is no. It takes way more energy to desalinate water than to treat fresh water. If Fusion becomes a reality then it becomes viable. Otherwise you are burning a lot more dead dinosaurs to make your fresh water than before. There is no free lunch in Thermodynamics dumb dumbs.

Isreal does this

Why not just use a huge magnifying glass to cook up sea water

We can desalinate but the climate control nuts won't agree. They are political hacks and just want money. Mexico has a plant already way ahead of the USA.

Desalination is too expensive? Wait till you run out of freshwater, see how cheap desalination suddenly becomes.

Of course it works,look at Australia they have the worlds largest desalinization plant in the world.San Diego now has a desalinization plant a Ditto copy of Australia but smaller.The military did it back in ‘90-‘91Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm that’s how we got water 💦 the 1st month in country right out of the Port of Jubail Saudi Arabia..

You mean like New Jersey don't have safe, drinkable water?

It's should also be used in India as their is water scarcity

We should need more technological advancements in Desalinising water

petroleum distillates are obsolete. H2O is the best and cleanest fuel in the world. We have all been brainwashed... type in cars run on water...

Can the brine be used for salt if you evaporate the water from it? I feel like it may be different.

I've been hearing this 1% talk for years now. If there was really only 1% of fresh water that we have access to then i would think it would have been used up by now.

Already trillions and trillions into debt so i dont see a issue with San Diego spending that kind of money on desalination.

So how do you power that machinery used to pressurize saltwater through the impeding filter? Is it gas powered, a two-stroke engine?

I was thinking it would be good for replacing the ice melting on the polar ice cap. De-salinate it, freeze it, push it into the Arctic Ocean. Voila.

Brine cement. Got researchers in Abu Dhabi making it happen.

Why not build greenhouses with curved or domed ceilings in arid or desert areas where they might need the water most in the first place, fill them with saltwater, and collect the evaporated fresh water as runoff the way the planet already does it? Then we could collect the solid salt as a byproduct to sell, use little energy other than transportation costs, and not expose other environments to brine.

So one group is talking about glacial melt desalinating the oceans and then another is complaining about brine..... they mentioned that salt readily disperses into the water and combines so it will balance out. i'm afraid as the "goldie locks" zone moves further away from the equater then staying where you were will become more challenging

Why does every issue involve California

5:00 not only that, but you are Pulling that water FROM OTHER AREAS.... How is that not bad?

Desalination Plants have done a lot of good work for the society by filtering out drinking water from the extremely saline and polluted sea water. The brackish water which is filtered out and sent back to sea beds by desalination plants is harmful for the marine plants and animals.Instead of this, the desalination plants should have a permanent set of storage vessels for brackish water from where on the salted H2O could be further sold to manufacturers of table salt,baking soda & detergents for further salt extraction or even be sold to car battery manufacturing factories,tanneries, laboratories, chemical industries,poultries,naval shipyards, nuclear power generating stations,etc.

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Answer to the question... NO

What water crisis? More people living in dry climates does not create a water crisis, itnis a demographic issue. Another Main Stream Media drama to sell advertising.

We have technology that puts high-tech cameras on far away places like Pluto, and asteroids. OF COURSE WE CAN PURIFY SEA WATER! Israel is doing it. A system using gravity and a series of micro-filters is quite feasible. Nuclear Power provides unlimited heat for distillation. We needs laws that force this technology! MEXICO has no problem with water: Evert town has several water purification stations.

Greed.... Humans are the only stupid species that puts dollar on something that is free! if people only knew!!

California sucks all resources. And it just sucks.

What if the desalination plants were solar and wind powered? Usually where there is a fresh water shortage there tends to be a lot of sunshine.

Guess we'd get real cheap salt lolol

Here's an easy fix: stop overpopulation

Quadrillions of gallons of water in the ocean, and you think a few thousands of gallons of brine will harm the ocean. Do scientists know what concentration gradients are? The brine that is dumped will equilibrate once dumped into ocean where the laws of concentration gradients take place. Dump it in the ocean, and stop complaining.

THANK YOU FOR POSTING ! This gave me my topic idea for my research paper.

Playing God? There’s a Water Cycle that keeps everything in perfect balance. More Hurricanes to come!

You now what can save the world? Less people and consumption.

Not if we allow them to turn the oceans into plastic junk yards. END ALL SINGLE USE PLASTIC FIRST go from there.

solution is, decrease world population in between 100 crore.Population devastate whole world ecological system. 778 crore people can not control.

Boil the water with solar panels which means no energy cost duh

Isreal people only take 1 bath a week probably, don't use as much water as Americans.

if CNBC opposes it, it's probably our best water choice

Greed is the only motivator x humans .

why not harvest the ice in the arctic

why not build something that turns salt water into steam? it would turn into a cloud then rain? Am i stupid?

The remainder brine that’s left from the desalinated water.. can’t you just naturally let the remainder water from that brine evaporate and then you’ll be left with salt? You don’t have to harvest every mm of water.. essentially you’ll get clean drinking water, some water that evaporated and will rain back down.. and a cup of salt..

Dessert countries near the sea should develop Solar Farms and use the electricity to run desalination plants?

"The rivers will flow and the oceans wont rise."

“It’s been practiced for... “years” lol. I think Mother Earth has been doing it longer than us....

I believe because of regulations, and cost to meet them, desalination isnt happening in some areas that would bennefit from it.
For instance.
Ventura CA. is a costal city, it is getting ready to treat sewer water enough, so that it can be pumped down into the local aquifers. Then it will magically be called safe drinking water. The practice is called (toilet to tap). Things like pharmaceuticals that can,t be filterd, or treated out, are now going to be part of the water supply there. Not only well this water will be for home use it will also be used to irrigate crops potentially contaminating food grown there. Not to mention this is just a humilliating circumstance for the people in this area.

No need to try save anything, power of money destroys everything.

How did u Manage Human Wasted ( Water ) ?

Wouldn't it be more cost effective to invest in floodwater areas, catching /storing/pumping the water , and after filtering it to put it to good use wherever needed, it's being done with oil and gas already.

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No it can't. The problem is catastrophic climate change.

Brine pollution will destroy marine life.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_desalination
A completely solar dome-thermal was planned in San Diego in the 50s, and chopped off. It was easier for the neolibs to rob Native Americans of their water rights than spend a nickle to make the city independent of outside water. Salts would have been ground and boxed, then sold to defray costs. Like solar, the more people using reverse osmosis and thermal the cheaper it becomes, the less damaging to the environment. Yes, it is the answer, no matter how others twist the truth. Ask them about world population. Most seem to think all peoples in 3rd world nations should die and stop polluting the earth for whites first.

I have a solution for this problem to produce free water from a seawater