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Cheap desalination without a power hookup, without even batteries, produces drinkable water.

A "shipping container" sized unit, again with no power, no batteries....

"On average, it desalinated around 5,000 liters of water per day—enough for a community of roughly 2,000 people."

"Cheap as tap water"

This is good news. Very good news.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/desalination-system-adjusts-itself-to-work-with-renewable-power/


Desalination system adjusts itself to work with renewable power

Instead of needing constant power, new system adjusts to use whatever’s available.
Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
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The membranes are arranged in such a way that the water is not pushed through them but flows along them. On both sides of those membranes are positive and negative electrodes that create an electric field, which draws salt ions through the membranes and out of the water.


Huh. Neat!

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Kevin Russell
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@bob

What is instead of what? Doing what? 97% of water on earth is salt water. Of the remaining 3% more than two thirds is frozen.

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Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖
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An excuse to keep poisoning the planet. Just like "carbon capture", just another reason to not change how we humans are killing the planet.
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Kevin Russell
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@bob

No, desalination is not about pollution or carbon use, though problems intersect.

You're right to insist on solving climate, on building the new energy, on ending carbon fuels as fast as humanly possible, immediately. On getting carbon fuel ended, directly.

Cheap desalination is just a good thing. We need a bunch of good things.

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Neil E. Hodges
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Cheap desalination will help so many people as climate change causes water scarcity across more and more of the world. :(
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