Louise_R_Heller wrote:Foxfyre wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:Foxfyre wrote:Wouldn't you think if scientists were taking this all that seriously, they would be pushing governments to be devleoping the technology to making ocean water potable? Ocean water isn't going anywhere and there is plenty of it.
You don't mean that response seriously, do you?
I certainly do. If there is credible evidence that a serious water shortage is just over the horizon due to global warming, it would make perfect sense to me to be addressing that problem now before the circumstances are critical.
And I have every faith in human ingenuity and creativity that when there is necessity to produce a lot more water from the oceans, then we will have the technoligy developed to do just that.
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Desalination works have existed since deepest antiquity. They used treated goat gourds and such, we also got membranes electrical processes evaporation and many more.
Besides --- aren't all those icebergs icepacks and so on supposed to MELT???? Aren't there TRILLIONS of cubic meters of FRESH WATER trapped in them????
Something here concerning the "seriously" doesn't make SENSE !!!!!
Well the icebergs are supposed to melt and mix with the salt water and though the desalination process that occurs in this way is supposed to upset the natural ocean currents, the water will not be potable. And yes, desalination processes are used just about everywhere but not on the huge scale that will be necessary if much of the world's fresh water supply dries up as is speculated a page or two back.
Thus I think if enough credible scientists are of the opinion that such a disaster is imminent, I would think the responsible thing would be to encourage governments to begin developing the technology to produce potable water from sea water on huge scales.
Shucks, if we get this technology down, we can draw enough water out of the oceans to irrigate crops, refill lakes and reservoirs, etc. and lower the ocean levels enough to uncover all the cities that are supposed to go under water.
I mean if this is really a big problem that requires big solutions, then we need to really think big.
