Reply #39: I was thinking

[Popol Vuh]

One of the ideas I've had concerning the increasing water shortage problem was how to desalinate coastal water WITHOUT burning more green house gas causing fuels.

So I was thinking: why not utilize the massive amounts of free energy the coastal surf expels? You could build a series of small submerged turbines fed by directing the flow of coastal waters in a submerged housing; generate electricity from it and use it to desalinate and pump the fresh water to coastal cities who in turn could discontinue using their traditional sources of fresh water, leaving it for others to use. The remaining salt could be used to reduce the amount of mined salt.

Its just an idea I thought about.






Oh, and I was wondering how many of the global warming naysayers who are running out of water still don't believe in global warming. I bet there's probably a lot....sigh.