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.

  • interceder270@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I think the problem is that it’s too salinated and needs to be put back into the ocean slowly over a wide area.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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.