So if boiling salt water to get freshwater works...maybe there was something more we needed to consider.
Like just how far is the ocean from us? How much water do we use on a given day? How much would it cost to actually heat the water? We do have energy bills and we know energy isn't free. We dug a little deeper into all these questions we had to figure out some important ideas about salt water being turned into freshwater!
Like just how far is the ocean from us? How much water do we use on a given day? How much would it cost to actually heat the water? We do have energy bills and we know energy isn't free. We dug a little deeper into all these questions we had to figure out some important ideas about salt water being turned into freshwater!
We did a lot of figuring out with many tools that are offered to use during remote learning. With Google Maps, we figured out that the nearest ocean is over 800 miles away...that's really far to get water!!! With an online water footprint calculator, we determined how much water we use on average and it's a LOT! And then with some energy cost analysis for the city of Chicago...HOLY COW! Boiling salt water from the ocean to get our freshwater would be nuts! That's just way to expensive! We have to get our water elsewhere...and people that even live near the ocean must get their water elsewhere, too! This process is just too long and too costly for it to be a reality for the majority of people. Back to the drawing board...where do people get their freshwater from then???