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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
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- Subject: Re: Request: info on desalination and solar energy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.235342.19694@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:53:42 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Nov14095822@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <ETHANB.92Nov14090929@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes:
- >
- > They use nuclear power. [to desalinate water].
- > The water coming into the house is hot:
- > instead of a water heater, one needs a water cooler to get hot and
- > cold running water. However, this is more of an example of money to
- > burn than oil to burn.
- >
- >I don't believe nuclear power is currently used for desalination in
- >the Middle East. The countries that need desalination have plenty of
- >cheap oil. As I recall, the main technology was distillation, but
- >they are shifting to reverse osmosis, which is technically more
- >demanding but more economical of energy.
-
- The Israelis have at least one nuclear cogeneration facility whose
- low-temperature facility is a flash desalinization unit. The water comes out
- lukewarm, however, not hot.
-
- Of course Israel doesn't have the oil. Moses made a wrong turn somewhere ;-) .
-
- -dk
-