Ariel+M.+Energy+Water+Wiki


 * Our problem at hand is that when we run out of different things that help us out in our country such as fossil fuel, water, etc. we haven't found anything to replace it yet and that is a problem. The reason as to why we cant stop these problems is that we as a whole country take things for granite and don't think about the future in the way that we should be. No one is thinking about how we are going to do things once our supplies run out and they seem to just go past that and only pay attention to what they have now and they never think something like this can happen.**


 * As young people we need to be thinking of ways that we can change that and use the resources we have to make something that can benefit us in the future. If we don't make changes now or think of ways we can help out then we are the ones that are going to suffer when there are no more supplies. Some people are already taking action to try and stop global warming and save certain materials we have such as carpooling. Carpooling is driving with someone to a place you are both going to. This minimizes the amount of greenhouse gases put into the air by a car. The government has been helping out also by making an act called The Clean Air Act which made companies change their products to decrease the problems with air pollution that is making some people get diseases and become very sick and even die.**

Water Desalinization


 * The amount of water the world is taking in is doubling every 20 years, people believe that by the year 2025 water demand will exceed the supply by 56% because of regional drought and water needed for industrial growth. There is definitely a need to manage the valuable resource, that is why they came up with water desalinization. Desalinization is when fresh water is separated by salt water. When water is boiled the salt water stays behind while the fresh water is boiled away. In this process water is first boiled then the steam or water vapor is cooled. Desalinization plants are used today to convert sea water to drinking water on ships and in many regions of the world to treat water that is dirty or contaminated by things in nature.**

this is what the desalinzation process looks like


 * As humans were are most to blame for the increase in Carbon Dioxide, in fact we currently increased the Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere by 80%. Some people are wondering with desalinization if it's going to bring the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere up even more. The answer to that is yes and no, because of the energy that it takes to make desalinization happen the increase of the Carbon dioxide would go up. However there are different techniques scientists are using to make up for the energy which do not emit Carbon Dioxide. For example in Perth they are going to be using wind power to produce the energy which does not emit Carbon dioxide. Also some people are thinking ahead to the future and are saying that although it may not be practical to do today they could desalinate groundwater from the deserts if solar power was utilized.**


 * With the process of desalination it can produce a large amount of water. The largest plant out of the country is the Jebel Ali desalination plant and it is capable of producing 300 million cubic meters of water per year. Most people would be saying okay well how is that going to help us out because its not even in our country. Well there is another large plant here in the United States which is in Tampa Bay, Florida. This particular plant is able to produce 25 million gallons of water per year. As you can see. water desalination produces a lot of water but it can run out fast because we are in such demand of it right now**.




 * The only con this process has is that it costs a lot to run it. This is the reason why they are saying a lot of thrid world countries are not able to have this because the cost for it is so high.**


 * If i were to change the way that it was used i would try to make it so that i wouldnt have to use as much energy as it takes for it to work and i'd try to find different resources of ebnergy which a lot of people are already thinking about. This would save a lot of energy and help out our enviornment.**

__**some quotes**__ //“Although the U.S. is only starting to use desalting techniques, we are one of the largest users.”//

//--//Former U.S. Senator Paul Simon (D-IL)

//Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.”// //--//Barry Nelson, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2003

//"If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from salt water, that it would be in the long-range interests of humanity which would really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments."//

//--//John F. Kennedy, 1962