http://ecotechdaily.disqus.com/Green technology, gadgets & newsenMon, 21 Dec 2009 17:08:06 -0000http://ecotechdaily.com/2008/06/06/will-desalination-technology-end-worries-over-freshwater/#comment-26844563The same heat, Solar heat, that causes the water shoertage must be tricked by mankind into yielding clean water - Great Solar powered Electric plants built using desert sun to pump seawater, then evaporate it, condense it in night time cold, and conserve it's use daily will save some of mankind in the convulsive changes coming at least to America with the inevitable crash of the dollar! Paranoid American fools, we have enough nuclear power in bomb form to incinerate all life on earth, but not enough Solar to distill some water for our desert cities! Atlanta oand others still use British 18th century "Crappiers", Great porcelain thrones that pollute up to 16 gallonds of fresh drinking water each flush, where a bio-degradable baggie would, albeit less gracefully, provide the same service with a win, win, end - bio-gassable fuel for consumers, and top-soil building fertilizer for America's burned out fields! And: no more polluted lakes rivers seashores! This will be forced on Americans in the next few decades, perhaps by Asian over-lords! We have sold everything to them to date and they own us lock stock and barrel and have turned down even Obama's overtures for Trillions in loans recently! Go figure!UncleBMon, 21 Dec 2009 17:08:06 -0000http://ecotechdaily.com/2008/06/06/will-desalination-technology-end-worries-over-freshwater/#comment-615884We (in Australia) have been in drought for a long time now and the idea of a desalination plant has been thrown around a lot but has been rejected many times. It is hugely expensive and they are (in my opinion) disportionately resource hungry for the minimal water they treat. I have a consumer level RO unit in my house and it takes about 50 mins to treat 20 litres (5 gallons). Desalination is not the answer. Treating rain like its liquid gold, is. More dams, more rainwater tanks, stop rain that lands on terra firma from draining back into the ocean.cbigginsSat, 07 Jun 2008 21:02:46 -0000