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Gas prices top $3: What you need to know about gas shortages, Colonial Pipeline cyberattack


               
2021 May 12, 9:01am   2,016 views  82 comments

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77   zzyzzx   @   2021 May 20, 8:25am  

B.A.C.A.H. says
Patrick says
What is the energy source used for desalinization?


Electricity.


Isn't there enough desert to make a huge solar desalinization plant there?
78   Eric_Holder   @   2021 May 20, 10:15am  

zzyzzx says
B.A.C.A.H. says
Patrick says
What is the energy source used for desalinization?


Electricity.


Isn't there enough desert to make a huge solar desalinization plant there?


It would be silly to build a desal plant in the desert. They belong on the coast.The panels are in the desert already.

BTW, desalinization plants could be a perfect dump of all that excess solar energy generated during the day. It would depend, of course, if they can be safely stopped for the night.
79   Patrick   @   2021 May 20, 7:13pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says
nothing beats the energy density of gasoline and the other petroleum distillate fuels


I read a book about this once. A physicist said that nothing will ever beat fossil fuels not only because of the energy density, but also because the other reactant (oxygen) does not need to be carried, and the waste products are immediately expelled, making the vehicle lighter as it runs. Neither of those is true with batteries.

But who really knows? It was assumed that it was impossible to make little battery powered drones until people discovered neodymium magnets and lithium batteries.
80   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   @   2021 May 20, 7:55pm  

Eric Holder says
They belong on the coast.


Exzactly. I've always wanted to see one with one of those windmills w/ buckets attached in order to lift the desal water high into the sky. Where it's dumped on top of a giant water slide that goes from Carlsbad to Arizona.

That would be cool.

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