Posted on 03/03/2015 8:27:49 AM PST by hauerf
On a Mediterranean beach 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, Israel, a vast new industrial facility hums around the clock. It is the world’s largest modern seawater desalination plant, providing 20 percent of the water consumed by the country’s households. Built for the Israeli government by Israel Desalination Enterprises, or IDE Technologies, at a cost of around $500 million, it uses a conventional desalination technology called reverse osmosis (RO). Thanks to a series of engineering and materials advances, however, it produces clean water from the sea cheaply and at a scale never before achieved ...
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Twenty percent of their water. Talk about a target. I hope it is secure!
A great achievement for the Jews. By the way what have the muslims achieved lately? Oh, I remember, More business for the undertakers.
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.
What about metals? Gold comes to mind, but I thought there were a LOT of minerals in sea water.
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.
Salt, which theoretically has uses on icy roads.
I'm thinking sea salt.........which is all the craze now for salty snacks.
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.
BFL
Plus, pumping all that water will keep the seas from rising. It's a two-fer!
There’s about fifty pounds of gold in every cubic mile of sea water....
There’s about fifty pounds of gold in every cubic mile of sea water....
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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