Realitybytes_ t1_j4hgvpy wrote on January 15, 2023 at 7:32 PM

Reply to Honduras Loses 10% of its Forests in Just 11 Years by decorama

Or on a positive note, Honduras gained 10% more land to build on... because that's how these countrys report this shit.

Realitybytes_ t1_j21q0x1 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 12:46 AM

Reply to UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

"When Praveen approached me with this idea, we both wondered why nobody had thought about it before because it seemed like such an obvious solution"

This comment within the article is ridiculous.

The capture of water vapour off oceans isn't a new concept, the material science of building a 210m x 100m tall structure sufficiently above the water that vapour is both generated and captured is challenging to say the least. While the size of the structure is of course arbitrary, you need scale to make the associated infrastructure viable.

While necessity is the mother of invention, the payback on a structure and associated infrastructure of this project is the issue... presently water is cheap, so until we are facing either a water shortage so severe that the project makes financial sense OR we decide to put people's interest above commercial gains, it just won't happen.