Comments on: Tiny “Water Chip” Desalinates Water With the Power of a Store-Bought Battery

By: aidan

aidan — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:35:53 +0000

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By: J. Frank Mortimer

J. Frank Mortimer — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:54:11 +0000

Making a few nanoliters of water from a 1-dollar battery is the same as making a few liters of water from a billion dollars of batteries. Done this way, this water is about more than 1000 times as expensive as pure gold. It’s gratifying to hear that this does not worry the scientists. But it should bother everyone else. Maybe some people do not know how little a nanoliter is. If you condense the moisture of a breath of air, for example, of air you get about fifty thousand nanoliters of water. As for membrane-based desalination, which is so obviously no good since “the membranes are prone to contamination”, Israel’s desalination contractors are making a profit when they charge 1 agora to desalinate 5 liters of water. That’s somewhat less than a billion dollars isn’t it?

By: Moi

Moi — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:16:50 +0000

If it works with a PV cell as opposed to a battery then banks of them could be used for anything from drinking water to irrigation.

By: JTR

JTR — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:54:04 +0000

7, 8, 9, 10 billion people would desalinate so much ocean the growing pollution would kill its remaining creatures, which has already begun to happen. The only workable solution is to enact both national and international laws requiring safe recycling for 100% of all human-generated waste materials. Then peacefully reduce the human population with peaceful family planning programs in which every woman is guaranteed the legal right to decide if and when to birth her children. Then a smaller human population living in peace and balance could live in harmony for thousands of years into the future. If not, ecocide and extinction are inevitable.