Sentences with phrase «desalinated water»

Since about half the cost of delivering water represents capital charges, such subsidies would reduce the cost of desalinated water by 20 to 50 percent.

Climate change is only increasing the demand for desalinated water as greater evaporation and rising seas further limit freshwater supplies for a growing world population.

Merrington explains: «The race will proceed, but its intention is to use none of the city's municipal water for the event, by buying water, from areas not subject to shortages, for drinking on the route, using desalinated water for cleaning, and the organisers will purchase 2 million litres of spring water and put this into the local grid to off - set the estimate usage by the non-local participants.»

So they're starting to desalinate water at night and store it so that when in the daytime, the water demand is also higher they actually don't have to run the power plants so much to support the desalination plants because they have a water reserve.

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

The image depicts a stylized carbon nanotube pipe that delivers clean desalinated water from the ocean to a kitchen tap.

The plant is based on a closed - cycle for electricity production and on a second stage, using the effluent water streams from the power cycle, for desalinated water production.

Since the value of the crops per hectare would be about $ 10,000, the present cost of about $ 5,000 for desalinated water per hectare is too high.

But the cost of desalinated water probably will be much less in the future.

The water on the Turks and Caicos Islands is potable but as on many Islands, fresh water is precious, and they depend upon rainfall or desalinated water produced by reverse osmosis for the supply.

Legislator Frank Sparaco voted the same way despite serious doubts about the plant stemming from his personal experience drinking desalinated water while serving aboard a Navy vessel.

Even with all of the water in Earth's oceans, we satisfy less than half a percent of human water needs with desalinated water.

But current methods to desalinate water come at a very high cost in terms of energy, which means more greenhouse gases and more global warming.

As of August, Antigua had no surface water supplies, and by October it was using 100 percent desalinated water.

Apart from relying upon imported freshwater and local yield as well as seawater (for flushing) to meet its demand needs, Hong Kong has been exploiting reclaimed water, recycled grey water (including rainwater) and desalinated water in order to enhance the sources of its water supply infrastructure.

The speakers» concerns included the quality of desalinated water, the environmental impact of the plant's operations, expenses related to the plant, proximity to the Indian Point facility, and alternatives to resolving the matter.

«Currently, about 400 million people are using desalinated water and it has been projected that by 2025, 14 percent of the global population will be forced to use sea water,» said Md..

During its lifetime Desolenator will desalinate water at a lower cost per litre than any system at this scale available on the market today.»

So they have managed to create centralized power plants to create electricity and the heat waste from that process is used for desalinating water.

Today the cost of desalinated water is about half of what it was 15 years ago; surely the cost can be decreased by half again — or more.

While the first use of the desalinated water must be to address the present inequities and to improve agriculture on existing Palestinian farmland, further increases in water could be used to convert barren land into productive farms.

While the cost of desalinated water has steadily decreased, it still is much more expensive than water from traditional irrigation sources.

The brine would then be passed into the Dead Sea, and the desalinated water would be distributed to Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians.

The speakers» concerns included the quality of desalinated water, the environmental impact of the plant's operations, expenses related to the plant, -LSB-...]

«It's not straightforward, but it's there, and would have to be compared with the costs of desalinated water and building new dams on land.»

He obtained an RF generator and, at a visitor's suggestion, tried to use the energy in the radio waves to desalinate water.

Water pricing in Israel reflects the true scarcity value of water, with different pricing schemes based on water sources (treated wastewater, desalinated water, groundwater, storm water, surface water) and uses.

Energy and the technology to desalinate water are both expensive, and this means that desalinating water can be pretty costly.

He looks forward to a day when the same technology will be used to desalinate water or produce hydrogen: «Wave is new.

Existing low - tech approaches can help prevent scarcity, as can ways to boost supplies, such as improved methods to desalinate water.

The estimated cost of the project would be at least US$ 10 billion, of which about $ 2 billion would be for facilities that would pump the desalinated water from the Dead Sea towards Amman — a distance of 200 kilometers, and a difference in altitude of 1,000 meters.

It is generally cheaper than building dams or desalinating water.

ICP has been around for a while, says Han, but it's never been used to desalinate water.

«Desalinated water costs five to 10 times more than regular municipal water, yet we're not investing nearly enough money into research.

It is desalinated water, perfectly safe.

Google Oceanlinx for a look at their modules that produce electricity, desalinate water, and produce hydrogen as a byproduct.

The baseline is for a floating plant, i.e., the power and water cycles are housed in a barge or ship with the electricity transmitted to shore via a 15 cm submarine power cable and the desalinated water via a small, 15 to 16 cm diameter hose pipe.

In the case of a surface condenser the condensate (desalinated water) must be compressed to pressures required to discharge it from the power generating system.

I'm pretty sure the cost of supplying desalinated water to replace Himalayan meltwater would be more than the entire US economy could output in 2030 given DOE only spends a few tens of millions annually on desalination research... Farming is where you find suitable seeds, soils, logistics, markets, and predictable rainfall and temperature patterns.

N - R HESs are physically coupled facilities that include both nuclear and renewable energy sources and produce electricity and another product such as a fuel, thermal energy, hydrogen, and desalinated water.