‘Water, water everywhere’... but what are the final... A general view of the Hadera seawater desalination plant in Hadera, Israel, 19 June 2018. EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN Less Desalination plants — those magic water factories that convert seawater into a liquid you can drink with confidence — have mushroomed dramatically over the past two decades as clean water shortages spread across the world. Indeed, the Ancient Mariner’s lament about his raging thirst amid an abundance of undrinkable seawater could gradually become a thing of the past as improvements to desalination technology enable the large-scale removal of salts and minerals from the ocean But, there is a hitch: How to turn this abundant resource into drinking water without harming life in the sea and adjoining coastal environment because of the growing torrent of brine water and chemical pollution from nearly 16,000 desalination plants scattered around the globe.
“The whole field is fraught with sparse data and non-validated models. Over 40 minerals and metals contained in seawater, their extraction likely to increase in the future. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – It is generally known that many minerals and metals exist, dissolved in seawater and in the waters of briny lagoons and salt lakes. According to Stanford University, in the US, seawater contains 47 minerals and metals. Starting with the most abundant and proceeding to the least abundant, these are chloride, with a concentration of 18 980 parts per million (ppm) in seawater, sodium (10 561 ppm), magnesium (1 272 ppm), sulphur (884 ppm), calcium (400 ppm), potassium (380 ppm), bromine (65 ppm), inorganic carbon (28 ppm) and strontium (13 ppm). Knowing these minerals and metals are there is one thing; extracting them is quite another.
Yet minerals and metals are being extracted from seawater, and inland briny waters, on a commercial basis. One of them is so obvious, so commonplace, that it is often forgotten – salt (sodium chloride). In similar fashion, some potassium chloride – also a salt – can be recovered from the sea on a commercial basis. Biochar, the once and future agricultural mainstay. Over 40 minerals and metals contained in seawater, their extraction likely to increase in the future.
Untitled. Earlier this week scientists sounded the alarm that Cape Town could be facing dire consequences if it does not improve the city’s water conservation. It’s predicted that reservoirs could drop to 20% capacity in 2017. At this moment in time, they estimate about 100 days of storage is left to sustain the city.
Theewaterskloof Dam, Western Cape Cape Town is forced to push hard on water conservation efforts to outlast the summer as no rain is forecast for the foreseeable future. Tougher restrictions are expected to be announced next week that would include limiting watering of gardens, parks and other open spaces will only be allowed on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Even using seawater used for fires in extreme measures at the cost of damage to the environment when used on forest fires. A feasibility study was carried out into building a desalination plant but costs were estimated to be in the region of $1.2bn to construct the plant with an annual cost of $88m.
New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter. Making the move away from using fossil fuels for heating is a necessary part of creating a sustainable future, but it's often a difficult ask for many people when turning up a thermostat on a gas or electric heater provides instant, trouble-free warmth. If people are to be convinced to switch to more renewable sources, it makes sense that there need to be easy-to-use systems available to encourage them to do so. A group of Swiss researchers claim to have come up with a process that stores heat captured during summer for easy, flick-of-a-switch use in winter, with the added benefit that the captured energy can be physically transported anywhere it may be needed. To achieve this, the researchers rely on the fact that when water is poured onto dry sodium hydroxide an exothermic reaction ensues, where the chemical energy contained in the NaOH is released as heat. The reverse of this process – passing heat through the medium to store energy – has also been demonstrated in the system.
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Composition of seawater. Detailed composition: abundance of the elements in seawater Salinity: the main salt ions making the sea salty Density: the density of sea water depends on temperature and salinity Dissolved gases: the two important gases to life, oxygen and carbondioxide. Limiting hydrogen ions and ocean pH. Bicarbonate: the life of dissolved carbon dioxide in the sea. Related chapters: global climate: learn about global climate step by step, from a very wide perspective.
Is global warming real or fraudulent? (140p) Must-read! -- Seafriends home -- oceanography -- sitemap -- Rev 20000714,20060825,20070515,20070718,20100608, Salinity affects marine organisms because the process of osmosis transports water towards a higher concentration through cell walls. Marine plants (seaweeds) and many lower organisms have no mechanism to control osmosis, which makes them very sensitive to the salinity of the water in which they live.
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