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sacred_numbers
7y ago
I think the reason it's inexplicably low is that they haven't really been testing.
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sacred_numbers
7y ago
It's true. Democracy is the worst form of government...besides all the others. Dictatorships and monarchies typically don't place a priority on educated governance either (even if they claim to).
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sacred_numbers
7y ago
Sorry, I meant to say that the enthalpy of water vaporization is about 630 KWh per cubic meter for context to compare to the energy use of this method and reverse osmosis. I guess I forgot to actually include the number!
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7y ago
Efficiency in desalination is measured by comparing the energy expenditure to the enthalpy of vaporization of water (basically the energy required to distill water by boiling it). The current state of the art reverse osmosis desalination p