XPost: soc.men, talk.environment, sci.environment   
   From: ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net   
      
   In sci.environment, richard schumacher   
      
    wrote   
   on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:18:47 -0600   
   :   
   > Nuclear-powered desalination plants.  Simple, straightforward, not   
   > ruinously expensive.  Naturally we'll spend decades and hundreds of   
   > billions of dollars diverting rivers et cetera and destroying more   
   > habitats before turning to desalination on a large scale.   
      
   It might be slightly cheaper to do so.  :-)  After all, desalination is   
   going to require some energy to separate the solute from the solvent.   
   I don't know how that relates to water's heat of vaporization, though.   
      
   And it turns out that we already *have* a nuclear-powered desalination   
   plant; part of it is about 150 million km away. :-)  Of course, it's   
   a little hard to control the heat output.   
      
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