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Which makes no sense, because how hard would it be to convert some of the seawater to drinking water?
by meatysnapper 11y ago
Which makes no sense, because how hard would it be to convert some of the seawater to drinking water?
- fooey 11y agodesalination is very hard and even harder to get rid of the waste brine
- jcranmer 11y agoNot so much hard as it is extremely energy-intensive and therefore expensive.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoVery true. But why not put up a few square miles of solar arrays in the Southern California desert to power it? Desalination is an activity well suited to an intermittent power source. Need more water? Just build another plant and a few more square miles of solar cells. It might be expensive, but it would certainly be a lot more useful than Governor Moonbeam's high speed train from nowhere to nowhere.
- dredmorbius 11y ago"Hard" is largely code for "energy intensive". Though there's more to it than just that. Pumping massive amounts of seawater means subjecting tremendous amounts of sealife (macroscopic and microscopic) to trauma. As one example.