Desalination used in a sentence

Desalination in a sentence as a noun

It's going to take a heck of a lot of water desalination to make up for that much energy.

There is some \n concern about water problems, the oil might threaten \n desalination plants.

[1]Getting to the point on costs: it's supposed to be around $2/m^3 in the UAE for desalination, so ~$400/capita/year.

> Who is going to be able to afford to buy all their water like this?The price of water can never really climb above the price of desalination.

For water, such an asymptote is desalination cost somewhere around 1-2x treated tap water.

The point probably being that their GDP/per capita is also comparable to the US, so the desalination cost isn't that big of a disincentive.

Though you don't necessarily need to convert it to electricity, and can use the steam for something else, like desalination of sea water.

However as other commentators have pointed out, thorium reactors should allow us to just brute force it via desalination plants.

If they want water, they should elect a government that will allow them to build desalination plants, as opposed to one which creates artificial scarcity.

Supplying 25% of this via desalination would require 36 GW of thermal-equivalent power.

RO systems have dramatically lower throughputs than desalination systems of similar size.

In refutation: nuclear or solar powered ocean desalination plants, with aqueducts, large pipes, or underground canals piping freshwater inland -- thousands of miles if need be. Elementary, existing technology, and I think not too far from economic feasibility even today.

Here are some ambitious ideas:- distributed power generation that's cheap enough and renewable enough so people in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa don't have brown outs anymore.- synthetic food generation a la star trek- desalination that is cheap enough for a farmer in Mozambique to do himselfThere are more, lots more.