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

More details in their paper here

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[-] 8BitRoadTrip@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Does it come with or without micro plastics?

[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It will certainly comes with a preposterous amount of salt to deal with. That's a critical limiting factor with desalination.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I thought the salt level in the input rises. So you could cycle the input with fresh salt water and pump the higher salt content stuff back to sea.

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