How to pronounce “desal” in English

And so desalination was not entirely invented in Israel, but it was largely invented there.

This is a desalination plant.

So they built this desalination plant.

Now this desalination plant is the world's most efficient desalination plant.

comes from desalinated sources, which is a great boost to the society, and a great boost for the health of the country.

And they have to desalinate it.

The picture down here shows a desalinization plant that operated in the late 20th century in what's

So they built a seawater desalination plant where there's no sea around.

Why does California not do more desalinization?

The cost of an Israeli desalination plant is about $400 million, which is totally amortiz-itable-- I had it wrong twice now, so you know what I'm saying.

radically reduce the cost of desalination this picture here is another nanom miracle it's a teabag that contains carbon and some nanofibers and

I'm Dr. Karen DeSalvo, the Chief Health Officer here at Google.

Ideally, you use your desalinated water as a way of topping off your system, and not as a way of being your system.

of the spare engines one of the spare motors for the desalinator um you know if without fresh water uh you

And we'll be able to do things like desalinate ocean water, which is extremely energy heavy.

Thank you so much Dr. DeSalvo for that very kind introduction.

And here I'll show you Israel's largest of its five desalination plants.

Yeah, it's a seawater desalination plant that's about a mile inland from the sea.

should have-- it would be a bad idea to be thinking of desalinating water for the purpose of growing crops.

Integral Fast Reactor potentially could for a small town besides providing local electricity also desalinate water locally, provide hydrogen locally if that turns out to be useful.

solve our water problems if we can get ourselves access to clean reliable affordable energy then we can desal the oceans remove water thousands or miles

the area. And so, What's a desalination plant?

Okay. So, a desalination plant takes salt water from the seas, and then through an

impact to society and I said okay we have genetically modified crops for food we have desalination technologies for water we have cheap building materials

If we had a lot more energy, we could do things like desalinate sea water and irrigate deserts and solve all sorts of problems.

And then if you guys, if somebody could come up with a way to desalinate seawater much more economically than we can right now, that would just be freaking cool.

know game over so it's very very important to check this we do have a hand pump desalinator and there are other ways of desalinating uh the sea

The hot reactors could, can be used directly for generating hydrogen and for desalinating water for fresh water.

of energy and what does that mean that means no more emissions it also means that you know desalination

from the rains coming off the Sierras, maybe we actually just shift to desalination using this kind of new clean energy technology.

actual infrastructure targets. They've hit a couple bridges, a power plant, a desalination plant, but there are

in a tit-for-tat way. So, they get one desalination plant hit, they hit one.

And so, they have two major vulnerabilities, which is food and water. And they have a lot of these other these desalination plants around

Yes. I mean, how do they get access to Karen DeSalvo to be able to ask a question like that?

It's challenging. And how do they then trust that the person they're hearing from is a person of the caliber of a Karen DeSalvo

And another possibility in the future, and also in the past, is desalinization.

Well, hi, everyone. I'm Dr. Karen DeSalvo, and I lead the clinical team here at Google.

neutral form of fuel for vehicles or planes you can do that when you have such an energy dense form of electricity you can you can do desalination and it

Despite distance from the ocean, it produces water more cheaply than anywhere else in the world, desalinated water.

So for example, down in San Diego, the same company that built that inland desalination plant that I referenced a few minutes ago has designed a state-of-the-art

And therefore, you want to, if at all possible, not use desalinated water for agriculture, just because of the cost structure.

don't want to have new infrastructure, or who don't think that we should build a desalination plant because it burns too much carbon fuel,

Anyway, along those lines, has any consideration-- I know that the population doesn't typically exist in those areas, but is there any consideration going forward to desalinization plants that