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theabominablewonder t1_j21qgxc wrote

Reply to comment by momo_0 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

There would still be a lot of water vapour if it was for small local populations but if it was scaled to produce water for millions then maybe the scale would pose a problem.

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poultran t1_j22dptw wrote

Sounds like a windtrap from the ”Dune” series,

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Ieatsushiraw t1_j22vfzd wrote

Indeed it does. Now if only we had Spice and Stillsuites and Holtzman engines and all the things in Dune minus the medieval bs they decided to revert back to

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