Freeing people in 3rd world areas from water issues means a development boom. So this cannot be allowed. It clashes with ‘the plan’.
Great news if they can perfect the membrane.
So liberals are wrong once again. Human beings are the ultimate resource and we can work out way out of scarcity.
Interesting!
Carbon is bad bad bad. Everyone who is listening has learned this. /s
Not to mention Southern California!
The planet can handle TEN TIMES the number of people that now live on it, if water supply issues were eliminated...which I think would be the case if only 1% of the energy now required can be used for desalinization.
Wikipedia shows the present cost at 50 cents per cubic meter (264 gallons), or about 0.2 cents per gallon. Decrease that price by 99% and the water is basically free (at least with regard to energy cost). Other costs still exist - capital and operations...so I don’t know what the bottom line will be.
Graphene's going to change the world...
Some of the comments on Yahoo are hysterical about this. What a waste of humainity
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).
Really? They call Lockheed, one of the largest companies in the world just a ‘pentagon weapons maker’?
If they could miniaturize this it would be great having one on every lifeboat.
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.