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[Anonymous No.10067427]

Why don't we just desalinate the ocean instead of worry about potable water?

[Anonymous No.10067436]

>>10067427
>be me
>apply for chemical studies for desalination
>get accused of sexual assault by juden
>now i am salty just like the water

anyone who can make a legit difference is being legally harassed or persuaded to take the other viewpoint via grants

[Anonymous No.10067442]

Mostly because its expensive to desalinate water. It takes more energy than it's worth. Its literally cheaper to pipe it in front somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.10067444]

>>10067436
Why do you need gibsmedats to study?

[Anonymous No.10067450]

>>10067427
What are we going to drink once the oceans run dry?

[Anonymous No.10067456]

>>10067450
we can deal with that later

[Anonymous No.10067461]

>>10067444
i dont, but it is hard to be motivated in exile.

[Anonymous No.10067465]

>>10067442
what if you could find a cheap way to desalinate water?

[Anonymous No.10067473]

>>10067465
Then it would work great. It's not about finding a cheap way to desalinate water. That's impossible, it takes a lot of energy. The best course of action would be to find a more efficient way to make and store energy.

[Anonymous No.10067490]

>>10067473
why is it hard?

>put water in container inside an even larger container
>boil smaller container
>evaporates into steam
>salt left behind
>steam condenses and drips into larger container

fucking there I solved the water crisis

[Anonymous No.10067525]

>>10067490
Oh shit, you're right! I can't believe NO ONE has ever thought of it. Are you dumb? Will you just Google "how much energy to boil a cup of water"? Quit swinging your bike helmet around, like you're not being a nuisance. It would be far more beneficial to yourself if you dont need someone to spoon feed you every random question that pops into your head. Especially when you clearly lack a fundamental understanding of physics.

[Anonymous No.10067528]

>>10067473
Thorium

[Anonymous No.10067535]

>>10067525
Awful lot of verbal diarrhea to amount to having nothing to say anon.

[Anonymous No.10067545]

>>10067535
That's because there's nothing to be said, stupid. He thought he solved the grand mystery of desalination without first understanding the fundamental basics behind it. I didn't wander into this thread to hold his hand while he flailed around like a retard. There is a reason mass desalination isnt a thing, and it wasn't because no one had ever thought of it before.

[Anonymous No.10067549]

>>10067545
How about harnessing the whole holy fuckton of energy the sun shoots at earth all the live long day

there's joules on joules on joules just waiting to be used

[Anonymous No.10067577]

>>10067545
More verbal diarrhea.

[Anonymous No.10067584]

>>10067549
Harnessed how? Are you talking solar energy? Are you talking build giant magnifying glass and just pointing it at the ocean? This is what I mean. It's not that you lack an understanding of desalination, you lack an understanding of fundamental physics.
>>10067577
Another great contribution by you too.

[Anonymous No.10067592]

>>10067584
>you lack an understanding of fundamental physics

this nigga doesn't know we can harness solar energy

[Anonymous No.10067596]

>>10067592
So solar? The first thing I mentioned.

[Anonymous No.10067599]

>>10067596
Yeah, solar energy is the energy the sun throws at us, dipshit

[Anonymous No.10067604]

>>10067427
fun puzzle

[Anonymous No.10067607]

>>10067599
But I clearly meant solar as in solar panels, you're just grasping st pedantic straws because you're stupid.

[Anonymous No.10067620]

>>10067607
Those aren't solar panels.

Who's stupid now?

[Anonymous No.10067624]

>>10067604
this is literally the only reason I made this thread.

thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.10067674]

>>10067620
Lol, you're dumb.

[Anonymous No.10067677]

>>10067674
those are mirrors
It's a molten salt plant, you fuck

[Anonymous No.10067848]

apart from the massive energy requirements for desalination, there are two other problems:

where to put the concentrated brines left over.
inb4 "just dump it in the ocean"
an influx of hypersaline brine at A SINGLE location will fuck over local ecosystems, including ones that fisheries depend on.

maintenance.
really salty water is corrosive to most metals, meaning you're constantly having to replace parts.

desalination is only worth it in places where there is no fucking drinkable water but lods of emone, like Saudi Arabia.

[Anonymous No.10067869]

>>10067848
Dump it in here

[Anonymous No.10067872]

>>10067490
Too expensive

[Anonymous No.10067936]

>>10067427
why dont we just evolve to drink salt water instead of worry about potable water

[Anonymous No.10067937]

>>10067848
How about mixing it with treated wastewater, how hard could it be?

[Anonymous No.10067947]

>>10067465
You mean like how water evaporates and then later falls back to the ground as fresh water, for free?

[Anonymous No.10068525]

>>10067490
With efficient system, you get around 1litre per hour per square meter of solar cell. With my calculations being correct, this is 2CM of rain per day. That means if you have area and half of area is covered by greenhouses cooled by preheating water to evaporate and another half is used to desaltify water, you could probably run decent aquaponic system to grow tomato.

If you evaporate by tidal power, you can go really huge and greens.

What's the benefit of it? It cost money and people who have them are not giving niggers for free.

[Anonymous No.10068533]

Local increase of salinity would not happen.
Energy is not that much of a problem.

Problem would be that water is useless without fertilizer and there are fish in the sea.

For drinking water it's really simple to make a tidal wave system that would make you clear water. It's not even noticeable at 0.000N that increase in Salination.

[Anonymous No.10068537]

>>10068533
How do you get fertilizer out of seawater? It for sure contains plants nutrients...

[Anonymous No.10068539]

>>10067848

With an unlimited source of salt water, like the ocean, there's no reason to hyperconcentrate the salt before dumping it back into the ocean; you could literally evaporate 10% into potable water before returning the remaining 90% without brine forming.

[Anonymous No.10068573]

>>10068525
I've just got it to at least 3 per sq meter.

>>10068539
We can just mix hypersalinated water with ocean water slowly to achieve same effect.

[Anonymous No.10069532]

>>10067947
This
Thanks anon, I was beginning to lose hope after reading half the comments in this thread.

[Anonymous No.10069938]

>>10067427
Shit cost-product ratio

[Anonymous No.10070145]

>>10068525
i know it is retarded but this is the best alternative in evaporation. If you want to have it FREE all you have to do is keep your rivers clean.

[Anonymous No.10070683]

>>10067427
Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.10071973]

>>10070145
Not space effective.

[Anonymous No.10072044]

how bout graphene filters?

[Anonymous No.10072058]

>>10067442
Don't we just boil water to make energy anyways? Why can't the two processes be combined?

[Anonymous No.10072072]

>>10071973
Is space efficiency really that critical in this case?

[Anonymous No.10072102]

>>10070145
Is there a risk of local flooding if all of a sudden we introduce all of this water that was in the ocean to this new environment?

[Anonymous No.10072118]

>>10072102
If we need to desalinate on such a scale because water has become scarce, the local environment isn't exactly top priority. Survival is.

[Anonymous No.10072627]

>>10072058
The saltwater would be really corrosive

>>10067525
If you use the untreated water to cool the steam it takes a fraction of the energy

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