Show water fromica from seawater worth more than ocean gold fortune awaits man who can extract it DETROIT want to get gold from sea water then learn how to get the water out of sea water some cheap process of getting fresh water out of the salty ocean would bring gold to its discoverer and ai aid d the future w welfare elfare of millions of people this Is the exclusive statement to science service from the man who two years ngo ago set the scientific tongues wagging and b has as been ever since the storm center of controversy over his pronouncement that it Is no more impossible to extract gold from sea water now than it was to extract bromine from sea water ten years ago that man was thomas alad midgley ley jr director of the american che chemical mica society and vice president of the ethyl gasoline corporation here cant date prediction the prediction still stands mr midgley contends but he adds in no way shape or form does it imply that gold will be extracted commercially from sea water in any given length of time mr air mid leys statement has bas consistently been interpreted in the press to mean that gold would be extracted from sea water on a commercially profitable scale within ten rears an exciting challenge Challen there Is a much bigger problem associated soc socia ted with sea water mr midgley said upon the solution of which depends the future welfare of millions ol of people this problem Is the commer cial extraction traction es of water itself from sea water no one can say that water is present in too small a quantity to be recoverable the present price paid for water in arid lands for irrigation purposes indicates that the value ol of the water in sea water Is about the same as the value of the bromine at present prices what more enticing research problem could anyone ask for an unlimited supply of raw materials mate rals an unlimited market with unlimited profits and unlimited benefits to hu humanity marilty |