Desalinization Breakthrough

Sorry, this is more about public drinking water than direct use by preppers. But it's very fascinating and will likely be put to use in the US.

http://ift.tt/1VJxX67

A professor from Qatar University has figured out how to combine CO2 gas that comes from burning fossil fuels at power plants with the extremely salty brine that is the waste from desalination plants. Both are problem substances that both industries worry about. In a very short process he ends up with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), calcium chloride (desiccant and deicer), and ammonia gas. The first two are extremely useful chemicals and the ammonia gets reused in the process.

Gas power plants and desalination plants could sit side by side on the coast and put out fresh water, power, and two useful chemicals for resale. Waste products from both plants would be reduced to a tiny fraction of before.

Sheer genius and it would make any tree hugger swoon with love.

Read the link fast. Scientific American is very fast to pull stories to limit them to subscribers. Maybe a day or two at most.

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Desalinization Breakthrough