On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Mel Lammers wrote: and in it he described a > way of obtaining pure water on a seashore. He claimed that if one moved > above the high tide line yet still in the sand and dug a 3-4 deep hole in > the sand, the water which came into the bottom would be salt free. I love it! maybe we better send this to the Israelis and others who are spending millions on membrane technology, etc., for desalination.... Somehow this reminds me of a person in Boulder, CO some years back, who proposed to the engineering school there (I heard it from a guy on the faculty) that air pollution could be remedied very simply. We just erect a massive chimney from sea level into the stratosphere, and it will suck out all the bad stuff.... Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 29 1999 - 13:31:00 PDT
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