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Any "water shortage" is really an energy shortage, considering that oceans exist and so does desalination. Purifying arbitrarily polluted water is feasible give

Any "water shortage" is really an energy shortage, considering that oceans exist and so does desalination. Purifying arbitrarily polluted water is feasible given nuclear power. (Nuke subs do not carry supplies of drinking water, for example.)

jibiki 18y ago
Interesting. Power in France costs ~$.03/kWh. So to boil a kilogram (i.e., a liter) of water (ignoring the heat of fusion) takes 100 J = .03 kWh which costs about $.001. Looks good to me. (I mean, those little water bottles sell for like $5/liter.)