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Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without... by ceejayoz on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:50PM (#48419356)
Go on. With what?
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without... by asdff on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:49PM (#48420252)
Seems like you could just dilute it with seawater at like 100:1 ratio and it would be negligible done offshore. We already dump our shit 5 miles out.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without... by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:01PM (#48420649)
100:1 is overkill and energetically very wasteful. It's a fairly straightforward chemical engineering problem.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without... by pasquinelli on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:54PM (#48420286)
gasoline
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without... by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:54PM (#48420613)
...sea water. You take 10 units of sea water for every unit processed and you'll get a slight increase in salinity.

A phase diagram tells you exactly how far you need to go.

You know this makes more thermodynamic sense than carbon capture, right?