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I visited Chile while on a random jaunt, ended up heading towards the observatories up north. La Silla was the first I stopped at, and for the entire drive betw
by googlryas 4y ago
I visited Chile while on a random jaunt, ended up heading towards the observatories up north. La Silla was the first I stopped at, and for the entire drive between La Serena and the observatory, the mist over the mountains was most impressive. Install miles of these nets and you could have the world's biggest carbon neutral desalination plant.
- aliswe 4y agoI'm really sorry for the nitpicking but this is not desalination :) it is a substitute for desalination though.
- googlryas 4y agoAs I see it, the sun is desalinating the ocean and the nets collect it, no?
- mdp2021 4y agoDesalination is when you have salty water and remove salt. Processing is when from some state you get a different one - here, your system already starts from "the different one" found in nature.
- googlryas 4y agoI'm counting the sun shining on the ocean evaporating water as part of the system!
- mdp2021 4y agoYes, clearly, but if you call something a "desalination plant", you state that the chief thing it does is to remove salt. Instead, the chief thing these devices do is to collect water - and that would be valid even extending the system /before/ the device input. Sure, then the whole system is a "collector of desalinized water" - which is different. The term 'plant' is valid for the artifact device only (the desalination occurs outside the plant) - you do not plant the sun.