Megascale Desalination

MIT Technology Review ^ | David Talbot

[Little Ray]

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

[JayAr36]

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

[woodbutcher1963]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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

[Steven Scharf]

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.

[tbw2]

Salt, which theoretically has uses on icy roads.

[Hot Tabasco]

What is the byproduct of desalinization

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

[woodbutcher1963]

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.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BFL

[Disambiguator]

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!

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[OregonRancher]

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

[cuban leaf]

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

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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.

[thackney]

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

[thackney]

[thackney]

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.

[thackney]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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.

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

[cuban leaf]

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.

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

[cuban leaf]

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.

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