Is there a way to desalinate sea water that doesn't require any sophisticated power resources?
2007-10-18 06:23:30 · 4 answers · asked by MoRmEx 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Well you can evaporate the water collecting the vapors and condense them into another container. This can be done with the sun, one container, and hole in the ground, and a sheet of plastic.
It's an old Boy Scout survival technique but doesn't produce water on a large scale. Dig a hole and pour in water, prop the plastic sheet over the hole form a channel in the sheet so that water that condenses will run into the collection can and wait patiently. The evaporation process will leave the minerals behind in the ground.
You can also collect and drink rain water, which if you live on the coast is most likely evaporated sea water. Just natures way of doing the same thing.
2007-10-18 06:30:45 · answer #1 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE NATURAL EVAPORATION CAUSED BY THE HEAT OF THE SUN BUT IT'S TOO LITTLE AND TOO SLOW.
2007-10-18 07:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you find it, you will win the Nobel prize.
2007-10-18 06:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no,it is impossible to do that.......
2007-10-18 06:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by prem 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋