Posted on 03/25/2015 6:59:31 PM PDT by ckilmer
That would threaten the habitat of the tilt-winged snail darter. We can’t have that!
Paging Moonbeam Brown.
Well that will spoil the Zero Population Growth Folk’s supper.
There you go throwing a monkey wrench into the justification for killing off 5.5 billion excessive unnecessary people. I hope you realize Dr. John Holdren is going to throw the book of Settled Science at you for daring to insinuate that more that 500 million beings can inhabit Mother Earth.
Eco-nuts will hate it and want it banned
Nanoporous graphene RO membranes allow desal at 1% of the energy previously required. The obstacle is the production of the membranes, and the Koreans are working on 3D printing them, so we are close to cost-effective desal.
Would have been a lot better article if they’d provided some estimates on cost or energy savings for the two methods.
Will this method reduce cost of desal by 10% or 90%? Big difference.
What makes this interesting is that its just one of probably a dozen announcements about the production of graphene for various purposes including desalination that I’ve seen in the last year. Here’s a google search of graphene desalination.
http://bit.ly/1NauYgn
You can see that’s there’s a pretty large community including big names with deep pockets working on the problem. And several companies have said they can produce graphene membranes to spec on an industrial scale.
But I have yet to see them in actual products.
There’s still kinks to be worked out.
But probably five years from now the world will look very different.
Its a shame that someone as sharp as Cruz would just promise the moon. That’s not really gob smacking anymore. But promise to turn the world’s desert’s green and double the size of the habitable earth. ...woa... Katy bar the door.
That’s what limited government is all about.
I remember seeing that the Gates foundation had come to the conclusion that the greatest good that could be done for the greatest number, was to find ways to provide plentiful and cheap fresh water and energy.
Pretty much the rest could work itself out, but these were the long poles in the tent of improving the human condition.
I guess that such filters could have a big role in waste water treatment as well.
Perhaps, my grapheme stock will now go up.
well yes.
Its a pretty sound theory. The way you grow a food chain is to feed the bottom of the food chain. In the case of a civilization that means that you lower the cost of water and energy.
The cheap energy side is coming in byo 4th generation msr reactors.
Ya gotta love the dweeb foundation knowing the greatest good.
Julian Simon’s “The Ultimate Resource” has come true.
http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/
I didn’t know there was a graphene stock.
Generally speaking the water business is not sexy. No way any water company could ever command high PE’s.
Gates has got a company working on 4th generation nuclear reactors. imho he knows what he’s talking about.
agree.
But for americans the age of limited resources only dates from 1970.
What’s more in about 50 years the wider solar system resources will open up.
I'm sure he does. I'm sure he's sure about everything about our lives and deaths. He can keep his New World Order self to himself.
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