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Cheaper desalination process

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 0:19

OK I have reason to believe that a few youthful bright queers read this board.  Get working on a cheaper desalination process.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 1:17

1. Go to ocean
2. Drink water
3. ???
4. PROFIT

Name: 4tran 2008-02-13 1:30

We have 2 kidneys.  I don't think we paid our mothers any money to get them.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 5:54

I have a hand desalination pump. It's a pain in the ass, but it works. Nuclear desalination=good. Solar desalination=better. Tidal desalination=nice try

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 12:27

The reason I ask is I would like to reduce the ocean levels due to global warming and pour out the excess water to flood Africa

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 13:25

>>3
You might be on to something.  If we can mass produce elephant kidneys, perhaps with stem cells, wait what do we do with the piss

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 14:14

>>6
The "piss" would be the desired end result, moron.
The real question is what you do about the rapid accumulation of salt in the kidneys.

Name: 4tran 2008-02-13 16:52

>>5
If you want to flood Africa, there's no need for desalination.  If anything, salt water is better for corrupting their agricultural fields.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 0:59

>>7
piss drinker detected

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 1:01

>>7 I copypasted because lazy
Along with volume regulation, one of urine's most important functions is regulation of the osmolality of an animal's internal space. There are narrow limits on the concentration of ions, in the blood and extra-cellular fluid, which are compatible with life. Although some are lost, most animals gain a large surplus of ions in their diets and must excrete them. Most humans, for example, ingest massively more sodium and chloride ions than they need in the form of salt - it is excretion of these surplus ions which makes urine taste salty.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 10:26

A cheap form of osmosis?  Fine. Cover 100 miles inland with trash and pipes that do nothing but pump ocean water onto the trash. The amount of sea water pumped has to equal the amount the sun will evaporate. Periodically lay down new trash.  Bulldoze the areas that cease to retain heat.

TAA-DAA!  It isn't going to get any cheaper than that.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 10:33

>>11

Also, if there's enough heat retaining and decaying trash, the evaporation should continue at night.

Did you meant a personal device?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 10:35

LOL, you'd need all the trash on earth being sent to one location.

Name: 4tran 2008-02-21 17:14

>>11
Why do you need trash?  For larger heat capacity?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:23

No other resource on earth is as plentiful, and yea. not just capacity, but it'll even produce heat, too. Airspaces, trash and muck, seawater, you'd probably be able to evaporate...  That's a lot of math. I know fairly active compost heap 10 foot around will evaporate up to 60 gallons of water on a cool night.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:30

On the up side, if you did that along the western coast of North Africa, you'd probably make a new rain forest all the way to Egypt.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:34

And, I forgot, once the process started going, the new plant life would produce new layers of vegetable mass to spread on the evaporator layer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 7:28

That's brilliant. I'm stealing that.

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