To: SJackson
Desalinization, however, requires a LOT of electric power to make it viable. Maybe it's time to perfect the molten salt reactor technology so we could build desalinization plants that could make billions of gallons of potable water easily from seawater.
13 posted on
06/17/2015 12:20:17 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
“molten salt reactor”
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Yup, Thorium LFTR Plants every 250 miles just back away from the coast would do nicely. They’d have power and fresh water in the bargain. Even if all the water went to Ag use, it would free up water for residential.
To: RayChuang88
Large scale desalination is done by flash vaporization which requires heat from burning natural gas or any waste heat from another process.
28 posted on
06/17/2015 11:10:21 PM PDT by
353FMG
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