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*Simon Fraser University Edit: I am also very curious about what happened to that bad-ass machine from Kamen.

• tim333 10y ago
  No special info but the machine looked awful expensive for the amount of water it would make.
  • burgreblast 10y ago
    The Israeli desalination plant "Sorek can produce a thousand liters (264 gal) of drinking water for 58 cents." And it can produce 624Km3/day or 150M m3 of water a year. That's 20% of Israeli domestic consumption. That's $0.002 per gallon, about what CA water costs. All fresh from the sea. 75X cheaper than the 0.15 cents per gallon @mojomark estimates in the thread below that it would cost in fuel costs alone for a tanker to ship water from alaska. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the... I can't tell exactly, but the $0.58/1000 liters seems to be amortizing the $400M investment cost, because it's on a 25 year Build - Operate - Transfer contract.