"Nanotech" is becoming meaningless.
"monorail Nanotech!"
Posted on 11/10/2006 11:58:15 AM PST by ckilmer
The consequence of this will be that in under 10 years the cost of water desalination and transport will be 1/10th of today's costs --thereby making it economically feasible to turn the deserts of the world green and double the size of the habitable planet.
Don't you know how much better off we would all be if every human were gone? And here we are destroying the natural balance created by nature (a non-living thing that should be worshipped as if it were God.)
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what happens to desert people when their deserts go green? beats me. Likely, however, it would have been tough to conceive of Frank Herbert's Dune without a desert world.
"can we sell it to the arabs for $70 barrel? lol"
The Chinese really need water. Clean water.
But they will just steal the technology.
At the risk of sounding like a tool, that really is an intersting website....I forwarded on to a few people.
bump for later reading
THANKS.
BTTT
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This article talks about 25% total savings. Were will the rest come from?
this is a first generation membrane. the next generations will roll in imho in 18 mo intervals like computer chips
Cool, now make one to separate water into Hydrogen and oxygen
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You got it.
Purdue University is working on separating Water using a catalyst, would be nice to see more work in this area.
"Nanotech" is becoming meaningless.
"monorail Nanotech!"
I agree that the particular membrane is no great advance. The big shift is in using charge to do the seperations.
Later generation membranes will incorporate work done by LLNL scientists back in may. they found incredibly high flow through rates using carbon nanotubes.
A combination of charged nano tubes will enable them to do seperations at room temperature and pressure. that's the gold standard
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