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For a world covered in oceans, getting a drink of water on Planet Earth can be surprisingly tricky. Fresh water is hard to come by even on our water world, …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: Seawater Desalination
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source of power. Since solar panels don’t always produce electricity, these …read more Continue reading For Desalination, Follow the Sun
To briefly outline the crisis in question, the UN Water group puts it this way:Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Water Conservation, Elon Musk, Water, Desalination Continue reading “It is very solvable.” Elon Musk addresses the water scarcity crisis
Getting fresh water from salt water can be difficult to do at any kind of scale. Researchers have developed a new method of desalinating water that significantly reduces its cost. …read more Continue reading Desalinating Water With the Sun
Contrary to what we all learned in elementary school science class, it turns out that heat may not be necessary to make water evaporate. Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light alone can evaporate water, and is even more efficie… Continue reading Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study
Researchers have developed a new solar-powered desalination system that produces high amounts of drinkable water and uses a technique inspired by the ocean to avoid the problem of salt clogging. Scaled up, the system could provide enough drinking water… Continue reading Solar desal system produces drinkable water quickly without clogging
Saltwater is plentiful, but no good for drinking. Desalinization is the obvious solution, but a big problem isn’t taking the salt out, it’s where all that leftover salt goes. Excess …read more Continue reading Passive Desalination Discovers How To Avoid Salt-Clogging
At disaster sites, it’s not uncommon for both the water supply and electrical grid to be out of commission. That’s where a new system may someday come in, as it utilizes just a small amount of electricity – which could be stored in a battery – to desal… Continue reading Low-power desalination tech may provide drinking water at disaster sites
This remarkable desalination device, made from 170,000 recycled plastic bottles, runs on mechanical power from waves as it floats in the ocean, and creates up to 13,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of fresh water a day – while discharging far less concentra… Continue reading Wave-powered buoys vastly reduce the ecological cost of desalination
As microplastics pollution and potable water scarcity both worsen, it’s becoming increasingly important to find efficient ways of filtering and desalinating seawater. A new aerogel definitely holds some promise, and it’s made from egg whites.Continue R… Continue reading Egg whites used to produce a cheap, effective, water-purifying filter