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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)



mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) wrote:

>John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
>:  
>: Yes, but what is the actual numerical argument about how fresh water supplies
>: limit population?

>Fresh water supplies are substantially constrained by geophysical forces not
>feasibly alterable by human technology, excepting very expensive and resource
>intensive electrolysis.

>--
>Matthew B. Kennel/mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu/I do not speak for ORNL, DOE or UT
>Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA/ 


Uh, what does electrolysis have to do with obtaining fresh water??? I
think you "may" mean reverse osmosis, which generates fresh water 
>from  salt/brackish by use of membranes.  




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