Can we filter ocean water? More global warming from the motors required to produce fresh water from the ocean? No more energy needed there than is used in the production of city water. Your answer was correct, except for that point. Report Abuse yea uh are u slow? Report Abuse yeah its called evaportaion and condensation. (AKA: rain) Report Abuse Baby I use to be in the Navy.I worked on Flash units.They are used to purify the water.The only way you can drink sea water is by boiling it.You have to kill the bacteria and micro organisms that lives in it.s.BOIL IT Report Abuse check with the island of Aruba, they supply the whole island nation and millions of tourists with fresh water made from sea water, quite cheaply as well Report Abuse A new high pressure pump has been developed that uses 60% less energy in the RO process from sea water to fresh water. Check out the TV show Beyond Tomorrow, they are doing a story about this. Report Abuse Is the question can we filter Ocean Water for drinking? Yes. The salt has to be removed. The whole process is called Desalination. Not Osmosis.
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/desa... Report Abuse Actually Reverse Osmosis IS a method of Desalination... it%26#039;s right in the very first part of that link. Report Abuse it called reverse osmosis and we do it all the time in malta. all of malta relies on it. but we dnt drink tap water we have to drink bottlled water. Report Abuse also evaporation kind of naturally cleans the salt water as it only evaporates the H20 and leaving the salt and dirt behind. then the clouds move to a different place and it rains and it provides us with some fresh water Report Abuse it is also called %26quot;water desalination%26quot; if you have seen the general electric commercial you%26#039;ll get the point. billions of gallons are produced every year for customer consumption Report Abuse yes you can completely filter all of the minerals and make water completely filtered by using a process that seperates and attracts the positive ions and negative ions in the water therefore completely taking the all the minerals in the water making it pure water. Report Abuse Yes, but is it practical? What do we do with the left over impurities. When we take out the water, we%26#039;re left with huge amounts of sea salt and other minerals. We could sell it, but no demand. We could store it, but if it leaks, the environment will be destroyed in that area. Ex. Aral Sea. Report Abuse Haven%26#039;t you ever played SimCity? They do it all all the time you just have to buy the Desalination Plant. How do you think middle eastern companies get sufficient water? it%26#039;s popular there. Report Abuse my grandpa was in the navy on the USS rodman
what you do is you boil it. the water droplets then travel up and collect on a cooling plate type thing as condensation. they%26#039;ve been doing this forever; it%26#039;s nothing new.
filtering it would probably be more costly than just evaporating it Report Abuse desalination...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... Report Abuse global warming is a myth.Any body remember the global cooling scare from the 60%26#039;s? How about ice ages? The Earth will adjust itself naturally. Beside a volcano puts out more pollutant than the U.S.A. does in a year. Some body PROVE ME WRONG! Don%26#039;t just write crap about Al Gore%26#039;s Movie.