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sug4r 21.10.14 - 11:30am
im glad about solar being the future, batteries for my B.O.B are real expensive * +

spartan2 21.10.14 - 12:52pm

@ mok214 - 19.10.14 - 08:33pm
The problem with desalination is, what do you do with all that concentrated brine? Many just pump it back into the ocean or sea a few miles from the desalination plant, thus creating a dead area that not even the heartiest brine shrimp cannot survive in. Others pump it into the Earth with high pressure injection wells which may cause shallow earthquakes in the area.

You either dump it where it can mix properly, or you can do reverse osmosis and the evaporate the water and sell off the salt. This requires more energy and time which is why it isn't the most popular right now, but when you have energy to burn, it's no big deal. * +

mok214 21.10.14 - 01:27pm
Easier said than done. Most of the areas with desalination plants don't give a d*mn about the environment and already have salt that is much easier and profitable to get. Energy costs money. Well, energy in the form of electricity, that is. * +

pieterpj 21.10.14 - 03:37pm
The objective is to assist also manufacturing companies in reducing problems during manufacturing eg: to reduce cell cracks etc. * +

mok214 21.10.14 - 04:14pm

@ pieter.hurter - 17.10.14 - 04:02pm
When light energy strikes the solar cell, electrons are knocked loose from the atoms in the semiconductor material. If electrical conductors are attached to the positive and negative sides, forming an electrical circuit, the electrons can be captured in the form of an electric current -- that is, electricity.
Wiki 17/10/2014

That is called the Photoelectric Effect which Albert Einstein wrote a paper about. * +

spartan2 22.10.14 - 10:55pm

@ mok214 - 21.10.14 - 01:27pm
Easier said than done. Most of the areas with desalination plants don't give a d*mn about the environment and already have salt that is much easier and profitable to get. Energy costs money. Well, energy in the form of electricity, that is.

It is easier done when you have virtually limitless cheap energy from fusion. You can move the salt anywhere if it's that much of a problem. The point being the root problem is energy and if we have so much of it with fusion then other problems will be a lot easier to fix * +

mok214 23.10.14 - 02:10am
Yeah, and fusion power has always been a pipe dream that is just 25 years away. It has always been a technology that for every step forward, we take six steps backwards. * +

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