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desalinate

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To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply

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Just desalinate some water!" "Desalinization is licensed to water carriers.

That also speeds the water molecules' passage.The upshot, according to John Stetson, the engineer in charge of Lockheed's end of the project, is that far less pressure would be needed to desalinate water than a polymer-based system requires.

Apply sufficient physical pressure to the brine, though, to overcome the osmotic pressure, and H2O will go the other way which is a neat trick if you want to desalinate seawater.Creating the necessary pressure requires a lot of energy.

Wines that once carried 12-13% alcohol began reaching 15-16% or more.To avoid this side-effect, producers turned to RO, a technique that is also used to desalinate water.

It would be cheaper to desalinate the equivalent amount of seawater.The environmental damage could be immense.

They are copying functional systems found in nature to provide cooling, generate energy and even to desalinate water.

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As a more modest alternative, he suggested mixing desalinated water with current supply to dilute costs, with desalination supplying perhaps 20 percent of total agricultural use.

It combines the two established ways of desalinating water: distillation and membrane separation.

Once desalinated, it would have to climb again by up to 1.4km to reach Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian cities.

The BBC, which has ended up producing most of Ascension's electricity because its transmitters are the biggest energy users, puts some of that power to work desalinating seawater.

Yet desalinating water uses enormous amounts of energy, which comes mainly from highly polluting coal (though Beijiang's advanced technology is more efficient than that found in standard power plants).

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