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Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water
Yahoo ^ | 13 Mar 2013 | David Alexander

Posted on 03/18/2013 7:34:33 PM PDT by shove_it

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To: shove_it

Cheaper desalination technology would be a boon to mankind, but the reporting in this article on how Lockheed-Martin’s advance works is sorely lacking. Salt, or in general any water-soluble ionic substance, is not present in water as molecules, but dissociated as ions (for ordinary salt Na+ and Cl- in equal numbers).


21 posted on 03/18/2013 10:48:26 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Charles Martel

you could also return it to the ocean with the water that comes through the sewage as well without changing conditions at all.


22 posted on 03/19/2013 12:12:16 AM PDT by willyd
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To: patton

That assumes the salt removed is returned to the ocean.


23 posted on 03/19/2013 2:36:44 AM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: enduserindy

Being third to say that is what I get for using my cell to freep.


24 posted on 03/19/2013 2:39:51 AM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: patton

If you extract the salt and you do not drop it back into the ocean, the seawater would remain constant. Of course you would have mountains of salt laying about.


25 posted on 03/19/2013 4:16:28 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: The_Reader_David
"Salt, or in general any water-soluble ionic substance, is not present in water as molecules, but dissociated as ions (for ordinary salt Na+ and Cl- in equal numbers)."

True, but the real situation is that those two highly charged ions are surrounded by a tight cluster of water molecules, bound to the ions by ion-dipole bonds. It is the total size of the cluster than matters.

26 posted on 03/19/2013 4:41:12 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: shove_it

Really? They call Lockheed, one of the largest companies in the world just a ‘pentagon weapons maker’?


27 posted on 03/19/2013 5:47:37 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Vermont Lt
Of course you would have mountains of salt laying about.
Considering salt is so useful we have entire MINES just to get it... I am pretty sure we can find a use for a mountain of salt.
28 posted on 03/19/2013 5:49:47 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: familyop

Yep, the question has to be asked - where did the “salt” (and other minerals) come from in the first place? The land. Rain. Rivers. Erosion. Ocean.

Now, an aside. Give the current rate of depositing of salts in the ocean, how “salty” should the ocean be if it were billions of years old?


29 posted on 03/19/2013 5:53:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TalonDJ

In certain societal situations,
salt is gold.

The word “salary” comes from the fact that people were paid in salt at one time.


30 posted on 03/19/2013 5:54:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: shove_it

If they could miniaturize this it would be great having one on every lifeboat.


31 posted on 03/19/2013 6:25:49 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: GOPJ; Norm Lenhart
Graphene's going to change the world...

Sure sounds like it might... If this works as advertised, it may be the most revolutionary invention since the computer. Solves a LOT of the potential global warming problems.

32 posted on 03/19/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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To: shove_it; All

FYI, June 2012 article about graphene as an investment.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article35259.html

Lots of other articles out there about companies and their R&D efforts as it relates to graphene.


33 posted on 03/19/2013 8:39:09 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: patton

Well, you could just answer that theoretical lib argument by promising to dump all the town’s wastewater back into the ocean to complete the water cycle. Oops, they wouldn’t like that either, would they?


34 posted on 03/19/2013 4:50:45 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MrB
"Now, an aside. Give the current rate of depositing of salts in the ocean, how 'salty' should the ocean be if it were billions of years old?"

I'm not sure, although the great flood might have affected it more recently than that. But if the ocean is too salty, add more fertilizer. ;-)


35 posted on 03/19/2013 6:48:54 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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