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This is a greenhouse designed for arid coastal regions, and the way it works is that you have this whole wall of evaporator grills, and you trickle seawater over that so that wind blows through, it picks up a lot of moisture and is cooled in the process.
We'll be able to make use of all that to evaporate more seawater and enhance the restorative benefits.
When you evaporate seawater, the first thing to crystallize out is calcium carbonate.
And there's just about every element of the periodic table in seawater.
And in parts of the Arabian Gulf, the seawater, the salinity is increasing steadily due to the discharge of waste brine from desalination plants.
As a matter of fact we use freshwater mollies, that we've used our climatic adaptation technique from freshwater all the way to seawater.
A single drop of seawater could contain 160 different types of microbes.
A teaspoon of seawater can contain more than a million living creatures.
An average teaspoon of clean seawater has five million bacteria and 50 million viruses in it.
If I were to scoop up two gallons of seawater, there would be more bacteria in those two gallons than there are people on this planet.
Or maybe I've already made your stomach turn, as you think of all of the seawater we've each accidentally swallowed over the years.
But luckily, we rarely get sick from that seawater, because most marine microbes are working for us, not against us.
To give you a sense of what an overfed ocean may look like, here are two examples of me sampling seawater.
So if we were to take a drop of seawater from each of these samples and put it under the microscope, this is what the bacteria and viral communities would look like.
We're looking at a side view of the same coral as before, where the protective layer meets the seawater; so, seawater on your right, coral on your left.
The colored tubing is where bacteria and seawater flow in and out of the device.
And it's using a device like this that I recently discovered that a known coral pathogen actually has the ability to sniff around the seawater and hunt for corals.
And this pressure forces the seawater through a membrane.
Well, I set up laboratories in Santa Cruz at the California Fish and Game facility, and that facility allowed us to have big seawater tanks to test some of these ideas.
San Francisco is also spending 40 million dollars to rethink and redesign its water and sewage treatment, as water outfall pipes like this one can be flooded with seawater, causing backups at the plant, harming the bacteria that are needed to treat the waste.
So these outfall pipes have been retrofitted to shut seawater off from entering the system.
One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.
They didn't know that what a seashell is, it's templated by proteins, and then ions from the seawater crystallize in place to create a shell.
On the lower left there is a picture of mother of pearl forming out of seawater.
But what's really interesting: unlike our ceramics that are in kilns, it happens in seawater.
But all that time, we thought, well wouldn't it be really cool if we could take an instrument like this out on a ship and just squirt seawater through it and see what all those diversity of phytoplankton would look like.
Now, the earth naturally removes CO2 from the air by seawater, soils, plants and even rocks.
Here's a female on the left with some eggs in her tissue, about to release them into the seawater.
The fourth and final water tap that we need to open up to solve our urban water problem will flow with desalinated seawater.
Now, I know what you probably heard people say about seawater desalination.
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