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Originally Posted by rogerdraig
desalination is the key i know many will shout about cost and energy but as i see it its an excellent oppertunity for renewables from solar and tidal to produce the energy both electical and physical to run and pump the water
i refuse in a country surrounded by the stuff to limit my use of it
i rycycle and cut use of energy in my life and have ben doing so long before it was the in thing to do but this is just daft when we are an island
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I think your right .Desalination plants work best with affluent countries and when built close to the sea ,the UK ticks both those boxes .The main stumbling block is the cost of the energy to run the plant .According to wiki the best that can be achieved is 49 us cents per cubic meter of water (2006)which is quite expensive but by using a renewable source such as wind power (plentiful on the coast and we already have the windfarms in place ) then that cost of desalination per cubic meter will get a lot cheaper and the more that are built the better the technology gets and the cheaper the water