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Julian Bailey——Works at the International Telecommunication Union, Lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
Current methods require about 14 kilowatt-hours of energy to produce 1,000 gallons of
desalinated seawater.
So we can conclude that cost of distillation is high because we need notable large amount of electricity to heat water in thermal plant and generate high pressure.
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