Wow, this is remarkable. Very cool.
Mmhmm. Seeing that we can make it ourselves. No reason to ruin a habitat.
I think it'd be far more convenient to produce "artificial" saltwater anyway. You'd get the desired concentrate, remove any worry of the presence of impurities and you wouldn't have to worry about hauling it across landmasses.
mk...but then demand for drinkin water goes way up, no?
Well, as the video mentioned, water is the most abundant resource on the planet. As petrolium products, which are nowhere near as abundant as water, have been responsible for a large fraction of the energy in the world for the last several decades, I don't think it would have much of an impact on that.
I think you are right, though. It would have some sort of impact on it.
No...... I don't drink salt water.. I don't see why the price of drinking water would go straight up. Care to elaborate?
Because the fresh water to manufacture salt water has to come from somewhere...