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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 2:37 PM1 replyview on HN

> the up-front costs of massive desalination

Desalination is dominated by operating costs.


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rtkwetoday at 3:31 PM

Correct it's massively energy intensive to filter the salt out the newest best ideas still use ~2 KWh/m3 of water and that's a lab system in perdue that batches the process instead of having it run continuously which is why current RO desalination systems require so much energy.

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