This is potentially a great piece of news due to two reasons:
- solar
- brine mining
english.aawsat.com
- solar
- brine mining
english.aawsat.com
The original article doesn't specify, but the company setting up the desalination plant also signed a deal for a huge solar plant to power it:
zawya.com
zawya.com
And, they are also setting up operations to extract economically useful minerals from the brine "waste" of the desalination:
zawya.com
zawya.com
I've talked before about how solar desalination is a key breakthrough technology that will challenge the foundations of human society and politics.
I believe that more than anything (yes, more than digital/info tech or space) being able to use low-carbon energy to create an abundance of freshwater will be the biggest shift in human existence in the next century - and yes, it will be key to fighting climate change.
(Sorry, I can't engage too much in conversations on this - I'm really busy this week - so if you're a skeptic, I won't be around to answer you. But, I am content to just post this here for the record and see if history proves me right)
(I don't delete tweets because it's useful to have a record of your mistakes, unless they happen to be harmfully misleading or have bad typos)
(Yes, I am one of those people who is more ashamed of making bad typos than I am of having held a misinformed opinion)
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