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Mineral hints at bright blue rocks deep in the Earth
- Luyt 13y agoThe article seems more about all the water trapped in the Earth mantle. It mentiones it about a dozen times ;-)
- 3rd3 13y agoThere was an intersting comment related to that on reddit AskScience today: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/204xxh/is_it_just_a_huge_coincidence_that_all_the/ http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/204xxh/is_it_jus...
- greglindahl 13y agoAnother example of HN preserving a useless headline.
- sukaka 13y agoLearning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie. There will always be fresh water and oil. The price will not soar when supply is limited, there usually happens to be a new discovery. Eg. The US is a huge unexploited oil field
- sa1 13y agoIt won't ever be economical to extract water from 600km below the surface. Also, oil won't last forever.
- dsaravel 13y agoWell, the stone age didn't end for lack of stones.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoStone is a construction material, not a power source.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoIt's economical to desalinize seawater (once memorably [to me] described as "the most worthless substance in the world") now. We don't do it because using already-fresh water is even cheaper, but desalinization isn't exactly expensive.
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- joshdance 13y agoSource on the economics of desalinization? Everything I have ever seen have put it at pretty expensive. Would love to see a per gallon or liter price.
- anigbrowl 13y agoLearning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie. The word you're looking for is wrong, unless you're claiming that there was a conspiracy to keep this knowledge a secret.
- DiabloD3 13y agoI don't like being the tinfoil hat in a discussion, but given that what most tinfoil hats have been thinking wrt NSA, etc have been proven true thanks to Snowden, maybe there is a conspiracy to keep clean fresh water a secret to start a civil war on water rights in the US. And if not, it'd probably make for a good movie.
- rttlesnke 13y agoAs a person who thinks the opposite, this comes as a shock to me. Care to explain?
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- dsaravel 13y agoI haven't read the full article. But somehow it surprises me that the diamond was found in Brazil and not a single author is at least from a Brazilian university.