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#1 2010-01-20 19:05:29
Everybody! Urgent! Help Me Help People In Haiti!
Well. I have entered a science contest. For my project, I am trying to see which methods are EFFICIENT and COSTLESS ways to turn salt water to fresh water. Please give me ideas 
This idea came to me when I saw that MILLIONS of residents of Haiti are poor, dehydrated, and starving. Since they are surrounded by ocean water and it is not drinkable, I want to test which a easy and costless way to transform the salt water to drinkable water. Not like reverse osmosis because it requires A LOT of energy and money. Please post methods on how to turn salt water to drinkable water if you know Your help is greatly appreciated.
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1. http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Salt-Water- … king-Water
2.Boil it
3.Create a solar still http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
4.
Thank-you
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#2 2010-01-20 19:06:55
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http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Salt-Water- … king-Water
Course, I don't know if that works.
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#4 2010-01-20 19:07:29
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cocoanut wrote:
Lol I already have that bookmarked XD but thanks!
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#6 2010-01-20 20:04:38
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Re: Everybody! Urgent! Help Me Help People In Haiti!
Make a solar still http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
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#8 2010-01-21 07:01:34
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we could get all the food from our houses and go on a plane to haiti and dump all the food in thier mouths from the sky!
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#9 2010-01-21 07:05:40
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Impossible.
If you filter water, and treat it, you can create fresh water. You can also put a red glowing piece of metal in it (it's how the Egyptians or something cleaned their water.)
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#10 2010-01-21 07:14:07
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Re: Everybody! Urgent! Help Me Help People In Haiti!
VolknerN7Xfish wrote:
we could get all the food from our houses and go on a plane to haiti and dump all the food in thier mouths from the sky!
Hmmmmm....
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#11 2010-01-21 09:11:15
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MyRedNeptune wrote:
VolknerN7Xfish wrote:
we could get all the food from our houses and go on a plane to haiti and dump all the food in thier mouths from the sky!
Hmmmmm....
Oh good, sky food
One problem
What will we eat then?
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#12 2010-01-21 09:20:06
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Babies. Duh.
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#13 2010-01-21 11:59:30
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Ace-of-Spades wrote:
Babies. Duh.
Babies?...
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#15 2010-01-21 15:07:45
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ScratchX wrote:
steppenwulf wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
Babies. Duh.
Babies?...
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#16 2010-01-21 15:09:05
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Use the power of distillation. It makes awesome drinkable water with only fire.
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#17 2010-01-21 15:10:08
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RHY3756547 wrote:
Use the power of distillation. It makes awesome drinkable water with only fire.
A.K.A. boiling it
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#18 2010-01-21 15:11:21
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RHY3756547 wrote:
Use the power of distillation. It makes awesome drinkable water with only fire.
Yesh, that was listed in the link above
So far Solar Still, and Distillation are the best options but Solar Still is the cheapest and easiest to replicate.
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#19 2010-01-21 15:13:57
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Mr_X wrote:
RHY3756547 wrote:
Use the power of distillation. It makes awesome drinkable water with only fire.
A.K.A. boiling it
Boiling salt water is different then distillation. Distillation is when you pour salt water into a pot then put a cup or something that can contain liquid in the middle and finally you put the top of the pot on UPSIDEDOWN. The water will evaporate into pure water and it will drip down and collect into the cup. Boiling salt water just make the water evaporate and what is left is the excess salt, which makes the water EVEN MORE salty 
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#20 2010-01-21 15:15:31
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Salt water?
I should've read the first post
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#23 2010-01-21 19:02:01
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You're supposed to freeze it and then melt it, but I tried that and it didn't work.
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#24 2010-01-21 19:16:24
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You keep a leak proof, airtight umbrella / jar over Boiling water with a cup suspended slightly below it. The salt water evaporates, leaving the salt in the pot, and the steam collecting in the umbrella tip, and pours down into the cup after you cool it. The water vapor (which some people think is steam but steam is invisible) will then become water again.Since the jair is airtight, no water vapor can escape,
But the true solution is Chemistry. I don't know what this '2 years ahead' thing you're talking about is, but this is way more advanced than that. It's like diffusing the salt into sodium chloride, then making it react using other elements to make it into a solid, where it can then float down to the top or bottom, depending on it's density. Salt is a solid in most cases, but in salt water, it is dissolved into an aqueous solution. If you ever learn about synthesis or combustion or reactions like that, you'll understand. The photosynthesis thing you learn in Biology probably next year is a reaction that creates H2O and CO2. 4 different classes mixed into 1.
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#25 2010-01-21 19:53:59
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i think you should change the title because this really has nothing to do with Haiti. It isn't helping them, it is helping you win your science fair thing. Even if you did get inspired by the problems in Haiti, you still aren't helping them. It is a misleading title, and I think you are using their problems just so people will click on this.
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