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well if you pump them away for running through this nano-fluidic device, where you mix them with saltwater to get electricity... you could just as well store th

well if you pump them away for running through this nano-fluidic device, where you mix them with saltwater to get electricity... you could just as well store them. Just build nuclear power plants to generate electricity if you need that. Those also don't only exist in simulations. This tech might have better utility if it can be ran in reverse as a deslinanator. (though there are also proven technologies for that already)

eigenspace 3y ago
Storing water is very different from placing a generator along where it flows. This osmotic pressure technology doesn't exist just in simulations, it’s already deployed in practice. You appear to be confused. I have no problem with nuclear energy but just bringing it up in a completely irrelevant context is obnoxious.
- fodkodrasz 3y ago
  Generating electricity from salinity gradiens is very different from placing a generator along a waterflow
thfuran 3y ago
Store it for what and for that matter where? You're looking at making square kilometers of new reservoirs per day.
- fodkodrasz 3y ago
  store it in plants and groundwater by using it for irrigation for example. I see this technology a solution in need of a problem to solve. Using it for electricity production surely needs a lot of water treatment and pumping, a lot of energy investment, but not just submerging some magic membrane into the river deltas. It might have use in medical devices or some special niches, but not in the Netherlandish brackish waters.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    Storing it in plants just increases the volume, since plants aren't pure water. Do you think transforming the environment into maximally dense foliage to store water is without energy cost or side effect? What's the point?
  - mschuster91 3y ago
    > store it in plants and groundwater by using it for irrigation for example If there is one thing the Netherlands already has in abundance, it's greenhouses for agriculture.
  - eigenspace 3y ago
    Wow, what a good idea, please do get in contact with the government of the Netherlands and tell them about your genius idea to build canals and irrigation! Simply genius

eigenspace 3y ago

Storing water is very different from placing a generator along where it flows. This osmotic pressure technology doesn't exist just in simulations, it’s already deployed in practice. You appear to be confused. I have no problem with nuclear energy but just bringing it up in a completely irrelevant context is obnoxious.

fodkodrasz 3y ago
Generating electricity from salinity gradiens is very different from placing a generator along a waterflow

thfuran 3y ago

Store it for what and for that matter where? You're looking at making square kilometers of new reservoirs per day.

fodkodrasz 3y ago
store it in plants and groundwater by using it for irrigation for example. I see this technology a solution in need of a problem to solve. Using it for electricity production surely needs a lot of water treatment and pumping, a lot of energy investment, but not just submerging some magic membrane into the river deltas. It might have use in medical devices or some special niches, but not in the Netherlandish brackish waters.
- thfuran 3y ago
  Storing it in plants just increases the volume, since plants aren't pure water. Do you think transforming the environment into maximally dense foliage to store water is without energy cost or side effect? What's the point?
- mschuster91 3y ago
  > store it in plants and groundwater by using it for irrigation for example If there is one thing the Netherlands already has in abundance, it's greenhouses for agriculture.
- eigenspace 3y ago
  Wow, what a good idea, please do get in contact with the government of the Netherlands and tell them about your genius idea to build canals and irrigation! Simply genius