Engineers are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive, solar-powered device that is inspired by the ocean.

MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.

  • Dark ArcEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    Well this would be mixing the treated water with the salt … which in theory should get close-ish to the amount of water put into the system/the original balance

    It actually sounds pretty reasonable at least on the surface.

    Another idea might be shipping that off for cheap road ice control in states with winter weather

    • @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks
      2•8 months ago

      There’s a lot more in the salt than just salt, probably introducing a bunch of issues into trying to use it for deicing roads.