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| Israel: With desalination, a once unthinkable water surplus is possible |
| 2013-05-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Extracting the Mediterranean Sea's water could provide Israel with an unquenchable supply of the resource it lacks Set to begin operating as soon as next month, Israel Desalination Enterprises' Sorek Desalination Plant will provide up to 26,000 cubic meters -- or nearly 7 million gallons -- of potable water to Israelis every hour. When it's at full capacity, it will be the largest desalination plant of its kind in the world. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 Those all in one drill + tunnel reinforce are kinda nifty. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-05-31 20:05 |
| #12 It depends on whether you think of directional drilling as tunneling technology, I guess. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-05-31 19:51 |
| #11 Experience, but no advancement since 600AD. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-05-31 19:16 |
| #10 tunneling technology I believe the Paleos actually have some experience in that area. Quality Assurance is another matter. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-31 18:53 |
| #9 Correlation is not causation, BP - but it makes an interesting story. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-05-31 18:11 |
| #8 1905: Sudden water over San Andreas fault 1906: 7.8 earthquake... Anyone else think there's a Link? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-05-31 17:47 |
| #7 desalinization technology has improved by about a factor of 10 in the past decade in terms of efficiency tunneling technology, which would be the basis of any Med to Dead or Red to Dead sea system has hardly improved at all during that time |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-05-31 16:42 |
| #6 I've thought the same thing about the Gulf of Mexico and Death Valley, AP. I think you mean the Gulf of California, Skid. And something like it happened in 1905, when a poorly-engineered project on the lower Colorado accidentally diverted the whole flow into the then-Salton Sink, which is today the slowly dying "Salton Sea". |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2013-05-31 15:16 |
| #5 Many Mota...Mota...Mota |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-05-31 12:42 |
| #4 Wow, what will those Arabs think of next (sarc button off)? |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2013-05-31 10:52 |
| #3 Wow, what will those Arabs think of next (sarc buttoyn off)? |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2013-05-31 10:52 |
| #2 7M3/hr seems a little high if the projected annual production is only 150m3, from 2 plants at the facility. I've thought the same thing about the Gulf of Mexico and Death Valley, AP. Three hundred feet of absolute drop can create enormous hydropower. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-05-31 09:21 |
| #1 Now if they can drain the Med into the Dead (sea), they can have power and a whole bunch more potable water, annnnnnnddd they can raise the level of the Dead (sea) to a normal level, like it should be. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-05-31 00:16 |