[ExI] towing an iceberg

[William Flynn Wallace]

To take Southern California as an example of a place that needs a lot of
water, just about all of it is a desert.  I simply cannot imagine not
having enough land there even if you needed square miles of it, which you
probably do.  I do like towing ice which I have seen in several books.  Are
you saying that reverse osmosis is the last, the only tech that could do
this job?  No more ideas needed?  In fact, could you say that about
anything else?  That no further improvement can exist?

"Oh we've got land, lots of land, with the starry skies above - don't fence
me in."

bill w

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] towing an iceberg
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> Why isn't more money spent on desalination tech?  bill w
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> That technology is mature: we know how to do it.  The problem is that it
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> energy if you go with reverse osmosis.  If we can somehow harvest ice, we
> use otherwise wasted solar energy that evaporated water out of the sea.
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