Chinese scientists have developed a method of extracting fresh water from the ocean’s winter ice, the state media reported today.
Salinity of the water extracted from the ice is below 0.2 per cent, which is within the threshold for potable water, head of the research team, Shi Peijun said. The extraction process costs about four yuan (approximately $.49) per tonne.
No details on the process, yet. And no shortage of regions around the world that could utilize the process.
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Yeah, sure, but you’re thirsty an hour later.
I envision all these ice-bergs being towed – by sea-going tugs – to places which would like a new source of water, and then having the polar regions get warmer due to the accelerated loss of ice-mass. 🙂
China needs more arable land to support the population. They could use this to reclaim the deserts in the West for grain production.
But global warming should help to float more ice, as the ice pack melts and breaks-up, into more easily accessable areas, too! Kewl!
One only hopes they will sell this technology to Australia, so they can get those Antartic ones!
RW
Wow. That’s really nice to have. There is a problem though. What about melted ocean water?
How anput melting in in the sun?
Wake me up once they can make sea water drinkable..
> yeah, sure, but you’re thirsty an hour later
Same problem w. US water. But you get taxes doubled. Got to pay off the environmentalists.