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2016-06-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Desalination Breakthrough: Saving the Sea from Salt

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Posted by gorb 2016-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "With this process we don't need a carbon tax to make this economically viable,"

"But...muh boodle!"

-- Al Gore, Esq.

Posted by charger 2016-06-07 00:05|| 2016-06-07 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't the desalinized water mostly make it back into the sea? If so, desalinization, which creates no new salt, doesn't increase the saltiness of the sea very much.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-06-07 01:12|| 2016-06-07 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Most goes to agriculture and industrial uses, and much of that will evaporate.

Posted by phil_b 2016-06-07 01:30|| 2016-06-07 01:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting post, thanks.

Posted by KBK 2016-06-07 01:41|| 2016-06-07 01:41|| Front Page Top

#5 As Insty says, "Where's the graft in that?"

Posted by AlanC 2016-06-07 07:48|| 2016-06-07 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Ahhhhhhhhh, who cares? Unless one could link it to man-made global ... whatever. There'd be grant money in that!

Posted by Bobby 2016-06-07 07:57|| 2016-06-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The price of sodium carbonate and calcium chloride is pretty low. Its about $10/ton for the formerand about $100/ton for the latter.

there is a lot of sodium and chloride in sea water but not much calcium

I'm skeptical of the economics of this process.

Posted by lord garth 2016-06-07 09:14|| 2016-06-07 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Money quote: Qatar already has natural gas processing plants venting pure CO2 close to brine disposal stations

Like the people making bio-diesel from discarded restaurant cooking oil this is clever but hardly earth shaking.

Posted by magpie 2016-06-07 10:37|| 2016-06-07 10:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Certainly he could add SOLAR provisioning to the process energy requirements.

These are also the preliminary steps in making Ammonium Perchlorate, an explosive oxidizer often used in solid rocket fuels, like the Shuttle.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-06-07 11:00|| 2016-06-07 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Betcha he has Egyptian coauthors.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-07 14:13|| 2016-06-07 14:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Betcha Environmentalists find some fault with the process given enough time and creativity.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-07 14:39|| 2016-06-07 14:39|| Front Page Top

#12 So with the taking of all the CO (2), pretty soon all the trees will be dying from lack of photosysnthesis........

Posted by USN,Ret. 2016-06-07 14:44|| 2016-06-07 14:44|| Front Page Top

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