Posted on 05/11/2022 6:40:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
What do you do with the salt you remove?
see 28 and 39.
Technology for the win.
That is what always gets me about the AGW people. They think the only solutions are draconian regulations. They never even think about what new discoveries technology might come up with in 10, 20 or 30 years. I’ve seen a lot of changes in my 70 years. I have faith that if we want to tackle problems the human spirit is capable of solving most problems.
Look up Solvay Process, and note there is an even simpler variant developed by Farid Benyahia.
Finally, some news from California that actually makes sense. They should build them up and down our coastlines with pipelines inland to get water to known drought areas. Put solar collecting material on the pipeline and build pumping stations using that electricity to run the pipelines.
And if do this on a global scale, new economies can be created. Clean water will prevent disease, help with crop growth as well as forestation opportunities to scrub CO2, improve sanitation and hygiene. And the best of it all is it will cost less than just throwing money at dictators who pad their Swiss bank accounts. It will drive people to freedom to create new businesses and other opportunities.
But, it will never happen because the Global Agenda of the left will never allow it to happen. So I say, pick an area of the world, (Sinai for example) as a Proof of Concept. Green the entire place. Companies from around the world can participate using their technologies. Build housing, roads and infrastructure using only alternative energy. The place is sunny enough for solar to be captured and transformed to electricity.
As the project progresses, start efforts for immigration. Move the UN there. Israel, Egypt, Jordan and other middle eastern countries can come together to make this the new Palestinian homeland. No politics. Just progress. The new country would not have a military.
Once all of this is completed and Palestinians move out of Gaza to their new homeland, nuke the place from orbit, just to be sure.
Just remember that all the water ever on earth is still here.
(except the water astronauts take into space).
We “USE” water, and then return it to the earth.
An easy way to look at it is beer. Beer is up to 95% water. You consume it. THEN what happens to all that water? It ends up in the urinal at “Joe’s Bar and Grill”.
Then on to the septic tank/leach field or sewage treatment plant, processed, then right back into the environment available to make MORE BEER or whatever else you want to “use” it for.
“According to the International Desalination Association, in June 2015, 18,426 desalination plants operated worldwide, producing 86.8 million cubic meters per day, providing water for 300 million people. This number increased from 78.4 million cubic meters in 2013, a 10.71% increase in 2 years.”
I don't know what this proposal includes, but for years I've advocated for an evaporation based desal system (think a lifeboat survival water unit writ large) to provide fresh water where needed near the Pacific. Results: fresh water and sea salt.
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