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sharksfuckyeah t1_j21w9py wrote

Reply to comment by darkingz 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

> You can’t really repurpose the salt and toxins that are filtered out for consumption.

Maybe we can, though:

https://energycapitalpower.com/researchers-develop-sea-salt-battery-4-times-the-capacity-of-lithium/

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darkingz t1_j21x46w wrote

That’s a way different thing than desal but does present an opportunity I suppose but the problem always comes to the unpure water products that come out.

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