Michael, Didn't Neal Stevenson talk about doing this in the Diamond Age? Nanotech here we come.
alrry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:56 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Water of peace? > > > One of the things that is needed in the middle east to help > bring peace > (other than land) is water. Out there, water is worth more > than oil, gold > or (in many cases) life. The problem of filtering water is an > expensive > one. If a way was found to cheaply convert sea water into > drinking water, > it would change things greatly. > Here's the question. Is it possible to 'grow' carbon nano-tubes of a > certain internal width? Can we build materials with 'holes' > of a certian > size? Think of this. A pipe takes water from the sea to a > site a few miles > inland. Every few feet there is a section of pipe that is made of a > material that will hold all materials other than molecules of > a certain > size/shape. As water is pumped through, the salt content is > forced through > this material through pressure leaving water without salt. > The gold is > forced out at a different location (there's a certain amount > of gold in all > sea water). After a mile or so all you have flowing through > this pipe is > pure h2o or at least h2o with a few trace elements of rare minerals. > Can we do this? Do we have the technology? We're building the > parts for > quantum computers. Can we build specific sized filtering > materials? Does > anyone know? > There's actually a few other ways to do this including some that are > biological in nature, but I just wanted to know what others > know in the > field. Do we have the tech? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
