Jaded_Prompt_15 t1_j20enup wrote on December 28, 2022 at 7:22 PM

Reply to comment by zenwarrior01 in UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

Yep, so wherever it would have gone, it doesn't.

zenwarrior01 t1_j20soro wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:55 PM

Well, what I contemplated was the idea that this could potentially (if done at absolutely massive scale?) actually decrease flooding via massive rainfall and increase water in areas that need it most (something the article also alluded to). If only we could do that with wind someday too. Of course all of this boils down to temperature differences, global warming and such.