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Desalinization is a thing, and one that's often overlooked because the people holding the purse strings are generally cheap-asses.
by coldacid 5y ago
Desalinization is a thing, and one that's often overlooked because the people holding the purse strings are generally cheap-asses.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoDesalination requires high energy inputs. It also creates highly salted water as waste (some gets cleaned, other water gets i cleaned) that is difficult to deal with. Given cheap energy and somewhere to store the waste water, it could be viable.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoDesalinization is an extremely energy intensive process for the amount of water we use. Eventually we probably will produce so much energy that that’s less of a concern, but at the moment we’re having plenty of issues getting our fossil fuel usages lowered without adding Desalinization to our civilization’s requirements.
- standardUser 5y agoDesalination can be achieved using the cheapest energy source there is, solar.