Desalinization: Israel now makes more water than it needs
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2016 Jul 29, 9:07am 814 views 9 comments
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HydroCabron
2016 Jul 29, 10:00am
Bend over: here comes the big tax-funded infrastructure to create abundant water for big agribusiness and hereditary farming families.
Tenpoundbass
2016 Jul 29, 10:46am
Well Nestle will have to donate another billion to the Liberals in the world so they'll ostracize the Jews until they give up their free water.
How dare they rob the Globalist SJW their water rights money!
Dan8267
2016 Jul 29, 11:00am
If only there were desert countries around Israel that needed water as well. What a wasted economic opportunity. So much water, too few to sell it to.
Patrick
2023 Sep 23, 9:27am
Bill Maher recently interviewed Elon Musk. When Maher claimed that we are running out of water, Musk replied that “Earth is 70 percent water.” Maher shot back that “you can’t drink that.” Musk calmly replied that desalination is “absurdly cheap.”
How cheap is cheap? Energy Monitor notes that “globally, around 1% of the world’s drinking water is desalinated, but in Israel, that figure is around 25%.” Israel’s desalinated water comes from five desalination plants. The Sorek B plant has a capacity to desalinate 52.8 billion gallons a year and is contracted to produce water for $0.41 per cubic meter. There are around 264 gallons per cubic meter, so this puts the cost at about a penny per 6.4 gallons.
How do they do it so cheaply? Solar?
HeadSet
2023 Sep 23, 11:12am
Israel’s desalinated water comes from five desalination plants.
I remember back around 1990 when a Kuwaiti Air Force officer asked me why America does not use desalinization. He told me that Kuwait used desalinization on a huge scale at plants built by Americans.
Ceffer
2023 Sep 23, 11:16am
richwicks
2023 Sep 23, 11:19am
Well Nestle will have to donate another billion to the Liberals in the world so they'll ostracize the Jews until they give up their free water.
How dare they rob the Globalist SJW their water rights money!
Oh, it's not free. Reverse osmosis is very energy intensive. Also, the water really isn't suitable for farming. It sill has a relatively high salt content. You can't taste it, but is high enough to slowly Poison the soil
richwicks
2023 Sep 23, 11:21am
How do they do it so cheaply? Solar?
Musk is wrong. Depends on what you consider "cheap". Lake and river water are free..
Reverse osmosis is the cheapest method I am aware of. There are some experimental methods using graphene..
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/