Wednesday, January 17, 2018
https://www.ted.com/talks/fahad_al_attiya_a_country_with_no_water
Sheikdom goes from 10,000 bedouin in 1940 to 1.4 million now. oil drives desalination. he wants to run it off solar.
pipe dream:
today's idea to save and or take over the world.
middle east sultanate hires tesla to build a gigafactory to make solar panels and desalination plant.or, just borrow/license the technology.
reverse osmosis or better process.
then, you are left with the brine, a slurry of concentrated valuable minerals. that's where this next ted talk comes in. the guy is using bacteria to separate out various minerals. to at least some extent, this offsets the cost of desalination.
https://www.ted.com/talks/damian_palin_mining_minerals_from_seawater
https://www.ted.com/speakers/damian_palin
I don't know much about that economic model, so maybe or maybe not you end up with fresh water as a byproduct. Solar powered pumps then send it inland to farms, greenhouses, fish ponds, and faucets. Excess if any can go to wetlands which percolate into the aquifer. Meanwhile, keep building solar, for domestic then export use.
Meanwhile, this guy https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space intens to go to the moon, Shackelton Crater, and mine water to run a space based water station. Currently a gallon of water at the space staion is in the rder of $10,000. Spaceex is bringing that closer to $1000. But if this guy's plan works, water from the moon would be cheaper, and could be used as fuel.
The first ted talk I saw was Stamets, 6 ways fungi can change the world.
Sheikdom goes from 10,000 bedouin in 1940 to 1.4 million now. oil drives desalination. he wants to run it off solar.
pipe dream:
today's idea to save and or take over the world.
middle east sultanate hires tesla to build a gigafactory to make solar panels and desalination plant.or, just borrow/license the technology.
reverse osmosis or better process.
then, you are left with the brine, a slurry of concentrated valuable minerals. that's where this next ted talk comes in. the guy is using bacteria to separate out various minerals. to at least some extent, this offsets the cost of desalination.
https://www.ted.com/talks/damian_palin_mining_minerals_from_seawater
https://www.ted.com/speakers/damian_palin
Meanwhile, this guy https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space intens to go to the moon, Shackelton Crater, and mine water to run a space based water station. Currently a gallon of water at the space staion is in the rder of $10,000. Spaceex is bringing that closer to $1000. But if this guy's plan works, water from the moon would be cheaper, and could be used as fuel.
The first ted talk I saw was Stamets, 6 ways fungi can change the world.
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