If it's so easy and cheap to do, why isn't it in place already?
Seriously if you just go out there and propose the idea to the government and get funds to build your own small scale one to say "I told you so" rather than arguing about it online - you might save the whole friggin world.
"Well, ok, they're actually about the same, 7.5% for seawater, 3-4% for sweat."
That's not about the same, one is double the salt content of the other!
"Really, the energy used is NOTHING compared to the energy food factories use."
There you go again! Comparing and contrasting two separate ideas!
If you're still arguing you're a fool. If it was so cheap and good, every dry country in the world would use desalination, and they don't.
I always see commercials by GE for water desalination, and how they're pioneering it. I figured desalination would be a better bet than filtering poo out.
You people are far too concerned. Recycled water has been around forever. Water has been around forever. The water you drink today may have very well come from a dinosauer penis at one point. If anything, I'd be more concerned about the chemicals they're putting IN the water. Flouride is some nasty shit, and it's typically included in tap water (over here in the US anyway). Not to mention the heavy metal content.
We live too clean of a lifestlye in general, if we keep disinfecting things and antibioticing everything, in time our immune system won't be able to handle even a common cold. I'm not proposing we live in our own feces or anything, but damn!
"We live too clean of a lifestlye in general, if we keep disinfecting things and antibioticing everything, in time our immune system won't be able to handle even a common cold. I'm not proposing we live in our own feces or anything, but damn!"
That right there is why I never clean my room.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
Registered 04/09/2004
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24th May, 2007 at 16:36:27 -
NEVER cleaning your room isn't healthy either. All the dust and filth piling up...
If it's so easy and cheap to do, why isn't it in place already?
Seriously if you just go out there and propose the idea to the government and get funds to build your own small scale one to say "I told you so" rather than arguing about it online - you might save the whole friggin world.
> Politics. Basically the idea that people would rather drink cheap crap water and whine a lot than pay an extra $0.10 cents per liter. Oh, and the extra energy costs would need another power plant or so (which again, is nothing compared to say, highway budgets or even the costs to maintain an extra school or two). That would enrage enviromentalists, the same people who are whining about the chemicals people put in filtered water.
So, the easier solution is to buy someone's else's water for almost nothing or recycle water and hope nobody notices. Both of these have their own disadvantages, but that's another argument.
"Well, ok, they're actually about the same, 7.5% for seawater, 3-4% for sweat."
That's not about the same, one is double the salt content of the other!
> About the same in energy costs to desalinize. Most of the energy is in boiling the water + salt, with over 90% they're about the same.
"Really, the energy used is NOTHING compared to the energy food factories use."
There you go again! Comparing and contrasting two separate ideas!
> Only if you insist on comparing the stats of both typical nerd style. Just pointing out that you could probably save a few lives just by taking a small hit in taxes, but hey, the money a government gets from food factories and steel mills are more important than water.
If you're still arguing you're a fool. If it was so cheap and good, every dry country in the world would use desalination, and they don't.
> LOL, I have a reason for arguing. And yes, a lot of dry countries do use desalinization.
But what's really disturbing is not the where it comes from or what people add to it. The worst thing is where it's stored. Check out the water tanks in the typical tenement and you're likely to find a lot of things in it that'd make you vow not to drink it. Wood, insects, dirt, ash, rust. Especially rust. My house's water tank was blocked with sludge before we cleaned it out, didn't notice because the water in the shower was quite clear, though the brownish color on the shower and the filters kinda gave it out.
Want something else disturbing? A lot of the drinks sold in stadiums and near train/bus stations here use unfiltered, uncooked water. Some people even take it direct from the bathroom. I have a good friend who did so, claimed that the water is no dirtier than water you take from the kitchen
And don't get me started on the amount of bacteria on the kitchen sponge..
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
Registered 04/09/2004
Points 7998
25th May, 2007 at 03:28:08 -
"Yes, which I'm now immune to."
You can't be immune to dust. You breathe it in, your longues get filled up with dust, you cough a lot and possibly get breathing problems. Stuff like that.
Of course, it'd take a LOT of not cleaning up before that happens.
FFS, everyone's going on about the shit that's in water. Just how many times have you suffered illness because of the water from your tap. Zero!!! How many times have you found a woodlouse in your bath? Zero!!!
Everyone just shut up and be thankful for your endless, cheap, safe water supply.
Incidentally when I was up on Mull, our water supply came from a burn beside the house. Lovely stuff it was. Shame the pressure was so low but it tasted like good bottled water. No fluoride or out like that.
Finally they are building desalination plants in Australia. Chrisbo is right it is much better, its just the price that makes the Government hesitate, but with the new budget released weeks ago they can now go for it.
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