https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/a21c8bd3-898f-44fc-9912-3c1998b4b2db Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink. Humans need freshwater and getting enough of it is an ever-present challenge. Yet the earth is covered in water! Over half of the planet is ocean! The problem of course is that you cannot drink it because it is too salty. Desalination is the process of removing salts from salty sea and brackish water to produce freshwater. The goal is simple, but the technologies are complicated and energy intensive. And we often power these processes with oil. Ideally, we do not want to burn any more fossil fuels to get this water. And that is why people sometimes want to use nuclear energy to power the whole process. Errata: 10:00 - Finland is part of the EU and thus is subject to EU tritiated water limits. Thanks to Axis for pointing this out. Links: The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com, Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry, The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry, Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:16:48 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.loping.net https://tube.loping.net/lazy-static/avatars/8a56e488-2120-4649-a417-badf5893657b.png https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/a21c8bd3-898f-44fc-9912-3c1998b4b2db All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.loping.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.