Why Is Desalination So Difficult?
发布时间 2023-07-05 13:00:38 来源
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An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean.
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It might surprise you to learn that there are more than 18,000 desalination plants operating across the globe. But, those plants provide less than a percent of global water needs even though they consume a quarter of all the energy used by the water industry. The oceans are a nearly unlimited resource of water with this seemingly trivial caveat, which is that the water is just a little bit salty. It’s totally understandable to wonder why that little bit of salt is such an enormous obstacle.
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