Sentences with phrase «massive desalination»

Plans for a massive desalination plant at Port Bonython are already generating environmental opposition regarding industrial development of an isolated coastal site known for cuttlefish spawning.

Dr Lenton (who is also one of the creators of the planetary - boundaries concept) and Dr Watson suggest that energy might be used to change the hydrologic cycle with massive desalination equipment, or to speed up the carbon cycle by drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide, or to drive new recycling systems devoted to tin and copper and the many other metals as vital to industrial life as carbon and nitrogen are to living tissue.

In the west, water shortages are a reality now, so the country is considering the construction of three massive desalination plants, at a cost of more than a billion dollars each, to create freshwater.

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Each center targets an important challenge for the country, from improved desalination techniques and growing crops resistant to drought and salt to the massive production and distribution of solar energy.