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Fresh water is not a finite resource. You can simply make more by taking sea water and pumping in energy. It's not cheap but it's doable.
by rowanG077 10mo ago
Fresh water is not a finite resource. You can simply make more by taking sea water and pumping in energy. It's not cheap but it's doable.
- abenga 10mo agoIn the short term (while you build your desalinators), and in local water-stressed regions, it very much is.
- dijit 10mo agoperhaps the most hackernews take in this thread. desalination isn’t just expensive, it’s existentially costly in terms of energy consumption, and I don’t see any dyson spheres in production.
- rowanG077 10mo agoWith modern desalination facilities it costs literally on the order of cents per liter. It's an inconvenience at worst in the modern world. It costs approx 3kwh of energy to desalinate one cubic meter of water.
- wpm 10mo agoWhat do you do with all the brine?
- DrusTheAxe 10mo agoMake statues paying homage to the godkings who brought this upon us