The treatment technology is similar to the process used for desalinating seawater, but recycling wastewater requires less energy and is less costly than turning saltwater into freshwater. Polhemus said the costs for purifying wastewater will probably be about half the costs of desalinating ocean water.
I call bullshit. There is no way filtering out piss, shit, vomit, dissolved pills, and drugs is any less expensive than boiling and filtering fucking seawater.
Heating 10 liters of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.
You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt/hour of energy?
A fuck lot more than 10.
So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.
limitless free heat... think someone can pull the old magnifying glass trick, ya know focusing the suns light on one point from multiple angles to heat water in a glass container with some tubing and an empty? stupid idea i know but mentioning it just in case, shame they cant do that in desert area but then you gotta buss in the water and that costs.
I call bullshit. There is no way filtering out piss, shit, vomit, dissolved pills, and drugs is any less expensive than boiling and filtering fucking seawater.
You'd be amazed.
Heating 10 liters of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.
You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt/hour of energy?
A fuck lot more than 10.
So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.
limitless free heat... think someone can pull the old magnifying glass trick, ya know focusing the suns light on one point from multiple angles to heat water in a glass container with some tubing and an empty? stupid idea i know but mentioning it just in case, shame they cant do that in desert area but then you gotta buss in the water and that costs.