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ArtOfWarfare t1_j23t73o wrote

Reply to comment by YouDontKnowMyLlFE in UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

No, but we are filling up plastic bottles (sometimes with sugar or minerals added, other times just pure) with water than shoving those bottles into landfills.

So that does fairly permanently remove water from the water cycle.

Edit: Hm. I guess the bottles only take 450 years to decompose in a landfill. That’s a lot less permanent than I expected. It’s still older than the US, but on a geological/size of the ocean scale it doesn’t seem so bad.

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