DaveinOlyWA
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Joeviocoe said:Water is nothing like oil. There is a scarcity of water because we don't recycle it at the same rate we grow in consumption.
Oil takes millions of years to make.
We are sitting on 100 billion 'saudi arabias' of water... we just need to get the salt out of it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-usa-desalination-idUSBRE92C05720130313" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
right and when you add in the cost of desalination, that is when water becomes more costlier than oil
funny thing about it though. the bulk of oil is used for purposes that other energy sources could easily do but dont due to pennies...or dollars or hundreds of dollars.
there will come when you will need every penny earned from that oil to keep an area from dying. pumping water from the Mississippi wont do it. they had their own water shortage issues last year without that drain. Besides, the ocean is much closer.
cant help but wonder what the maintenance costs will be on machinery that handles salt water all the time though