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Why is desalination so expensive?

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My brainlet friend and I (also brainlet) were arguing about desalination to give cows drinking water and I figured out it would be pretty cheap to get enough propane to boil 56 litres of water which a cow would probably drink on a warm day. Just heat it up and condense it in a tube, whatevs. Apparently to get a cubic metre of water (1000 l) from desalination using plant methods costs 90 cents to 2 dollars. The water cost per kilolitre in a major Australian city is more than that. So why the fug is desslination considered so expensive? I understand membrane reverse osmosis is the preferred method in non shitholes but shouldn't that be even cheaper? Is it because it can't compete with exploiting preexisting fresh water sources for large scale water use and that's why? I have seen people say the problem is capital costs for making the desal plants - is that the whole story?
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White Men Are the Niggers of the Earth

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Did you know that if you, as a white man, have an idea that you have no right to protect it?

We could keep both 4ch and 8ch going indefinitely with the proceeds from these inventions, even a fraction of them. Here are the details on the atomic width insulators.
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Is the wiki any good

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I keep seeing allot of those math book guide charts and noone can decide on a good one. Why cant we settle it and make an official one?
There is one one the wiki? Is this one any good or can we adjust this one a bit?
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki/Mathematics
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Topology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

The amount of conscious suffering due to the existence of topology will be immeasurable.

We are playing with fire and we will all be burned.

No we already are.
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50% vs 2/3

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This is an old one that comes back every now and then.
What I think is more interesting is not the final answer per se (50% vs 2/3) but how people get to those results.
On one side you have people that will put themselves on the situation and they will see a clear 50%.
On the other side you will see people mathematically trying to recreate the sequence necessary to reach an event.
Which is your answer fren?
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math... math hard. why math hard?
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ITT: post and solve logical puzzles
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Is there a way to see the universe as it is at present? If physicists can just rewind physics to get to the big bang or fast forward it to see what happens at the end of time, is there a way to use that for other objects? Like how some distant galaxy looks NOW as opposed to time dilation making us see it as it was X years ago. I've always been curious how the universe would look in real time, but never found anyone talking about it or even showing projections.
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