Steve, I recently finished working on a design for a system in Perth. They all tend to be energy hogs as you are pumping lots of water around and have large pressure drops across membranes/filtration equipment and evaporators, etc.
Really needs a large source of green energy to power Stewart On Friday, July 26, 2013, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > According to Kiplinger's anonymous sources there have been advances in > desalination technology. This will help out parched coastal cities that > need additional supplies H2O. Next-generation water filtration equipment, > enhanced chlorination systems and other big breakthroughs are in the > process of being perfected and commercialized. This will result in a new > wave of desalination plants in just a few years. It will affect Both U.S. > and foreign coastal cities. Who expects to profit? DuPont, Dow Chemical, GE > and other manufacturers. In the U.S. Calif. (no surprise there) and the > Gulf Coast are likely to be large markets. According to Kiplinger there are > currently eight plants in the works in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. > Overseas, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Japan, China and Australian cities such as > Sydney and Perth are assessing the technology.**** > > ** ** > > I wonder how much energy these new plants will consume. IOW, assuming > CF/LENR technology takes a lot longer to evolve, how much will a gallon of > desalinized water cost under the current energy paradigm.**** > > ** ** > > Hmmmm… I should check my mutual fund portfolios. I wonder how much DuPont, > Dow Chemical, GE holdings I might have in them. Regardless of whether > CF/LENR technology matures or not those companies are likely to prosper > very well in the future.**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > Steven Vincent Johnson**** > > svjart.OrionWorks.com**** > > www.zazzle.com/orionworks**** > > tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/**** >
