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If you add up the cost of shipping the water, either in bottles or in pipes, and the electricity, including line losses, it starts to be more even I expect. W
by iancmceachern 2y ago
If you add up the cost of shipping the water, either in bottles or in pipes, and the electricity, including line losses, it starts to be more even I expect.
We often think, in our modern world, that water and power are free at our homes.
- yapyap 2y agoyeah.. no
- iancmceachern 2y agoWhat many folks may not realize is that ice for drinking water is often made from bottled or filtered water. What's the difference between shipping 100 lbs of water then freezing it vs shipping 100 lbs of ice?
- gwbas1c 2y agoThe energy to run the refrigerator in the truck
- minkzilla 2y agoIs that comparable to the energy to run the freezer in the bar?
- iancmceachern 2y agoNot in Norway. Often it's the other way around, the ice is and can be used to cool other cargo. Ship fruit or fish with it. This is how the meatpacking plants in Chicago used to work, entire train loads of ice was shipped down, then we add beef in Chicago, then you ship refrigerated beef and ice together to the rest of the country.