No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
view the rest of the comments
Heating water is a matter of physics, not technology. The amount of energy used to increase the temperature of water is literally how the units are defined. Do feel free to make a breakthrough on Fusion power though, I hear it's still only 20 years away.
Technology refers to the tech that generates the energy to heat the water.
Which doesn't change the fact that it would require more than 11 times the total energy production of the entire country. If the solution to a problem requires some miracle technology that increases energy production by more than an order of magnitude, it's not so much a solution as it is a fanciful dream. When step one is "Solve cold fusion" then it's not a serious solution.
That's the point @al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com is making: technology for energy generation will improve and provide enough energy to make incineration of water (or give it another name) possible.
And it's a stupid point. Just to power this one single endeavor we would have to increase the TOTAL NATIONAL POWER OUTPUT by more than 11 times. For this one thing. That's not just a new invention, that's not suddenly figuring out how to make Thorium-based nuclear reactors work, that's not squeezing a few percent more in efficiency out of Solar or figuring out how to recycle wind turbines or investing in pumped hydroelectric storage. It would take a literally world changing development. More than an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more output. For ONE project. If you can make that kind of leap in energy output then investing it all into this wildly inefficient and dubiously effective method of cleaning up waste water is the least of your concerns. That kind of energy output is the stuff of post-scarcity utopian dreams, and your plan is still to just use it all to pressurize and superheat water to get rid of SOME of the pollutants in it.
It's a stupid idea.
You are aware of what community you're in, right?
And as I've explained again, I'm not asking if it's feasible, nor that is be done yesterday. I'm asking about the process. You're answering a related question, but not the one I asked.
I am aware yes. It was not a stupid question, but the answer was No. What strayed into Stupid territory was people trying to act like the simple physics of heating up water will at some point change enough to change the answer.
You're angry and I don't know why. Nobody's arguing that heating things up costs energy 🤷
While you aren't wrong overall, heat exchangers and heat pumps could drastically reduce the energy requirements, perhaps getting the energy requirements down to 4 or even 2 times the national capacity. This doesn't means that it's impossible, it just changes how impossible. It also doesn't change that there would be cheaper ways than just heating all the water, or that those ways would also be cheaper with more efficient heat management systems.