Every few years, you hear about some new revolution in the process, but nothing much after. Why is that? Is it very hard to scale up or…?
Also, is it going to become more viable as fresh water is becoming more scarce?
Thank you in advance.
Thank you all. So it was basically what I thought. It’s not hard to do, but it is not really feasible due to many factors.
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It isn’t so much that it’s hard to do, but it’s hard to do cheaply enough to make it economically feasible. Most methods take a lot of energy, others are relatively slow.
In every case though, desalination on a large scale leaves you with all the salt and minerals that you remove from the water. It’s difficult to find somewhere inexpensive to dump those without it screwing up the local ecosystem.
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