Advocate wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:A lot of people saw some elaborate, though highly flammable, straw men based on my statements... and saw them get torched shortly after you fools erected them. No shock you have no firmer grip on reality now than you did then. Prove otherwise or keep looking like the moron you are, talking out of your ass as usual.
BTW: Not only could we desalinate water for billions; we should.
With that last statement, I rest my case. BTW, drinking water is only a very small percentage of the clean water needed.
You rest what case, you damn fool?
Quick strokes for those who choose not to know:
More than 1 billion people suffer annually for lack of clean water. A human requires a bare minimum of 3 liters of water per day. The World Health Organization would like to see 50 liters per person... and this isn't that big of a deal... if the civilized world collectively gave a rat's ass.
As of 2006; Israel's Ashkelon Desalination Plant (reverse osmosis system with a capacity of 320,000m3 per day
which is 320,000,000 liters of water) is rocking and rolling.
Between the basic human need; and what the W.H.O. would like to see for basic consumption, cooking and bathing: it would require between 10 and 170 such plants to supply, via desalination, clean water sufficient for
One Billion People.
The overall cost of the Israeli project is 52 cents per 1000 liters
or $166,400 per day
a bit over a million a week or roughly 60 million dollars per year. So, for 600 million dollars a year, 1 Billion people can have clean water to drink or for 10 Billion a year; 1 Billion can be in good shape according to the W.H.O.'s findings. This really isn't a lot of money, folks. To put that in perspective; We're spending 2 billion dollars a week in Iraq alone
which is ten times as much as it would cost to provide clean water via desalination to those billion people. Think about that.
These calculations are rough of course, because I spent all of 10 minutes putting them together. Feel free to repeat the experiment yourself. The sources I used, via a quick google search are:
http://www.water-technology.net/projects/israel/
http://www.geotimes.org/may05/feature_worldwater.html