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1. Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan: (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 11:27:24 EDT Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan:

   4.18J required to boil 1 gram of water. Each person needs 100L a day (mostly for hygenic purposes). 1L of water weighs 1kg. 100kg of water per person. 418kJ of energy per person per day to desalinate water by evaporation excluding energy required to recondense.

   For a city the size of Tulsa that is 188.1GJ a day. On top of the 38.88TJ it needs a day for household use.

   This is just for the people, not industry use.

   This is why we don't evaporate water for desalination.

   1. Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan: (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 11:27:50 EDT Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan:

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      My city isn't even that big.

      450k.

      1. Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan: (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 11:28:21 EDT Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan:

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         Industry and agriculture are far larger uses of water than households.

         The energy demands they would require for water are tremendous.

         1. Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan: (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 11:28:54 EDT Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan:

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            This is why conservation is important, no matter what economic system you're using.

            1. Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan: (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 11:35:47 EDT Elly, nasty enby :heart_pan:

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               If we scaled this up to the entire US, and provided all our water from the ocean via desalination via evaporation (excluding recondensing energy costs, so this is an underestimate)

               For the people alone, it would be 30.24PJ.

               Our total generating capacity is about 91PJ give or take a few trillion joules.

               Yeah.

            2. Mister M. T. Sack (thatbrickster@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 13:45:16 EDT Mister M. T. Sack

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               @elizafox People may not like my preferred economic system but I recognise the need for sustainable development and responsible energy use. I like to be able to do more with less.