Sentences with phrase «of desalinated water»

Seawater desalination plants cost around $ 1 for each litre per day capacity, and about $ 1 for each kilolitre of desalinated water they produce.

The price of desalinated water, is now down to less than 0.50 c per cubic metre.

The highest production rates achieved were 255 kWe (gross) with a corresponding net power of 103 kW and 0.4 l s - 1 of desalinated water.

«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.»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Even without a proper accounting of overlapping water supplies, the plan warned that demand for water could «outstrip existing supplies» by 2035 unless the state pursued dramatic solutions like desalinating and piping in ocean water or artificially seeding clouds to make it rain.

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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.

«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..

These include increasing water recycling and conservation by Israel and Jordan; importing water from Turkey; and desalinating sea water on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea or at Aqaba, then discharging the brine into the Dead Sea and pumping the fresh water directly to Amman.

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.

And, you know, their typical day is 115 degrees and humid, they've got no source of fresh water; so they desalinate volumes of water but that takes a lot of energy and a lot of the waste there is in terms of heat.

And the trick of this whole discussion, because the Abu Dhabi person jumped back in and said, «You know, we have a problem that during the day when we have a lot of power requirements, we've got a lot of waste heat, we can desalinate a lot of water.

Authorities could then arrange a «paper trade» that would exchange desalinated seawater for an additional share of Lake Mead's water.

With current technology, it requires great amounts of energy to desalinate ocean water on a scale large enough to meet the needs of a whole city.

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

They could have taken a purely engineering based approach of for example desalinating sea water, as other water companies have done.

I explained that if they couldn't desalinate it, or another one of the buckets of salt water they were testing, that I was going to wind down the whole venture.

That's all fine, but this also means that the climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the global energy mix.

According to the architect, some of the key features include a desalinating function that makes sea water potable without releasing brine discharge, plus a built - in garbage system that collects floating trash and disposes waste responsibly onshore.

The only way to survive such prolonged and deep droughts is to desalinate the ocean water to the west of both West Africa and the US Southwest.

The opening page is a review of every great idea that designers have had to desalinate or move water, carry things cheaply, provide prosthetics or just make life better for people because they are using things that are well designed.

Energy is used to desalinate, but it also takes a great deal of energy to move water through the entire Kingdom.

The solar - powered sculpture that could desalinate 1.5 billion gallons of drinking water for California.

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.

Yes, desalinating sea water and pumping it overland to replace the water from the acquifers would be energy intensive and expensive, but the point is we could do it, and the cooling effect of irrigation claimed in the study above would far more than off set the emissions from fossil fuel used to accomplish the task.

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.

With the recent announcement of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) 700MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants which represents the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, having been announced at a globally - competitive levelised tariff of 7.3 US cents / kWh (1.0 ZAR / kWh) awarded to a consortium led by Acwa Power (a Saudi Arabian Power and Desalinated Water Company), the price of CSP plants are clearly dropping drastically and are now competitive with other conventional technologies.

In the HCPVT system, instead of heating a building, the 90 degree Celsius water will pass through a porous membrane distillation system where it is then vaporized and desalinated.

Researchers from the University of Alicante's research group in applied electrochemistry and electrocatalysis have developed a standalone system for desalinating and treating water through electrodialysis.

Much of the imbalance comes from the fact that it has a relatively low population spread out over a wide area, with heavy reliance on private vehicles, in a demanding climate, and with the need to desalinate large quantities of water.

Now we hear from Renewable Energy Access that researchers in Germany and Algeria are collaborating to speed up the market introduction of large - scale solar thermal plants that could supply up to 200mw of electricity, while sumltaneously desalinating enough water for 50,000 people: «Electricity from solar thermal plants currently costs â «¬ 0.20 to 0.30 / kWh [US $ 0.31 to 0.47 / kWh], depending on the location of the plant and the amount of sunshine it receives.

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.»