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Yes, but you pay for that when you purchase the products. These costs are baked in.
by bufferoverflow 3y ago
Yes, but you pay for that when you purchase the products. These costs are baked in.
- iudqnolq 3y agoBut we're talking about increasing the per-gallon cost of everything. So the baked in cost would increase.
- jjk166 3y agoOr moving water intensive operations away from areas where water is expensive. No one is going to be doing desalination in Michigan.
- dylan604 3y agowhy not? we're growing heavy water using crops in places with little water. logic is not always the deciding factor if involved at all in a lot of modern things
- sophacles 3y agoThere are a few very big salt mines below the great lakes. We could totally get a desalinization plant in Michigan by pulling water from the lakes, salt from the Detroit salt mine, and combining them in the input stream to the plant!
- dylan604 3y agosomeone has been playing in the perpetual motion machine sandbox again i see
- 6510 3y agoI think it sounds quite sensible. How is it different from using all fresh water as an all you can dump free-for-all public sewage system before wondering where the drink is coming from? In India they poop in the water then take a bath in it and cook their food in it. In the west we do our pooping upstream because it looks so much cleaner that way. NO! I fail to see how adding salt before desalination is any less sensible. Lets just do it.
- dylan604 3y agoyou're desalinating water to have an abundant source of fresh water. why in the world does taking fresh water and adding salt being mined from the ground together to make salt water to then desalinate make any sort of sense?
- 6510 3y agoWe already have abundant fresh water. We use it to transport sewage, fertilizers and other crap to the ocean. It would be silly to try to clean it afterwards - but here we are? Adding salt is a great idea, it pushes our collective stupidity to a noteworthy level of nonsensicalness. It makes me wonder what other hard to remove poisons we could add to challenge ourselves. Perhaps design a new disease?
- dylan604 3y ago>We already have abundant fresh water. Clearly, you're not having a rational conversation with comments like this. If there was an abundance of fresh water, the western half of the US would not have been in severe drought conditions for the past however many years. This is where I leave you as you are just making things up like and not even having a good faith conversation
- 6510 3y agoI'm just watering the lawn.
- cyanydeez 3y agoCertain Michigan towns may need to do so...
- janalsncm 3y agoI think the implication is that the costs will be higher than 50 cents if 50 cents does not cover non-household use.