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Graphene sieve makes seawater drinkable


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1 minute ago, danielost said:

too much salt is harmful to life.

 

so is not enough clean drinking water

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1 hour ago, danielost said:

too much salt is harmful to life.

 

How is that a relevant comparison. Clean drinking water is much more important to sustain life, without it most life will die; it's hardly like they'll be releasing salt into the air or anything that will actually cause harm to any form of life. In fact salt has healing properties when used in certain ways. I fail to see the disadvantage of this.

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9 hours ago, seeder said:

 

so is not enough clean drinking water

there is a new device that when buried will produce clean water out of thin air.  cost 134 dollars.  it produces 11 gallons of water per day out of thin air.http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/waterseer-can-produce-11-gallons-day-clean-drinking-water-air.html

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2 hours ago, danielost said:

there is a new device that when buried will produce clean water out of thin air.  cost 134 dollars.  it produces 11 gallons of water per day out of thin air.http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/waterseer-can-produce-11-gallons-day-clean-drinking-water-air.html

 

New device? I posted about that idea years ago, right here. Plus for that to work it needs the right climate...and....its limited to a few gallons

Cleaning sea water provides UNLIMITED water...

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6 minutes ago, seeder said:

 

New device? I posted about that idea years ago, right here. Plus for that to work it needs the right climate...and....its limited to a few gallons

Cleaning sea water provides UNLIMITED water...

Agreed, being able to purify sea water is much more efficient as it is one of the most (if not the most) abundant, easily accessible resources on the planet.

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On 4/6/2017 at 1:05 PM, Unfortunately said:

Agreed, being able to purify sea water is much more efficient as it is one of the most (if not the most) abundant, easily accessible resources on the planet.

My state goes through tons of salt for roads and the salt by product of this would be great to be a cheaper source of salt for the roads. The water produced with this would also be great for crop irrigation. I hope they use this method and it really works.

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Taxpayers spend a ton of money on desalination plants that don't produce much except brackish ick that ends up being dumped back into the ocean. And that's not without its consequences. If they can throw this much of our money at these huge plants and they're not efficient, I don't have much faith that this is going to work. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZ0r3foqTTAhVMyoMKHVYVAoUQFgiPATAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fhiltzik%2Fla-fi-hiltzik-20150426-column.html&usg=AFQjCNF9jKRKnOV-uOQ0X9Mb7-tWQ1uM_w&sig2=cifoOe30kp9mFv1jh5YaMQ

I mean, literally, they spend billions on these plants. It is the most expensive water in the world, and there is not enough of it. 

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11 minutes ago, ChaosRose said:

Taxpayers spend a ton of money on desalination plants that don't produce much except brackish ick that ends up being dumped back into the ocean. And that's not without its consequences. If they can throw this much of our money at these huge plants and they're not efficient, I don't have much faith that this is going to work. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZ0r3foqTTAhVMyoMKHVYVAoUQFgiPATAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fhiltzik%2Fla-fi-hiltzik-20150426-column.html&usg=AFQjCNF9jKRKnOV-uOQ0X9Mb7-tWQ1uM_w&sig2=cifoOe30kp9mFv1jh5YaMQ

I mean, literally, they spend billions on these plants. It is the most expensive water in the world, and there is not enough of it. 

Isn't this a new method in the OP that would be less expensive?

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8 hours ago, White Unicorn said:

Isn't this a new method in the OP that would be less expensive?

What I read was this is the first experiment, they think there are possibilities, and they are hopeful. That's a far cry from having a solution to the problem of 14% of the world experiencing water shortages by 2025. 

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