A new desalination method (beyond me, but I so hope it works out!) - [inverse.com]
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Any new way of securing a supply of safe drinking water has to be welcomed. Those of us who live in parts of the world where clean safe drinking water from our household taps is taken as a normal occurrence, cannot know what it must be like not to have it.
Marionville
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Aug 12, 2020
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Safe clean water is THE most important thing we need to secure for everyone... this looks interesting
Angelamelek
Level 7
Aug 11, 2020
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The headline is sensationalist. . .
(succinctly slightly edited)
"30 min of absorption in the dark by an incredibly porous compound with crystalline structure, with so many nooks and crevices within it that its overall surface area is actually the largest per unit measure of any known material"
. . . then 4 min in the sunlight "causes the material to release its collected salt and begin the absorption process again for many more cycles."
FearlessFly
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Aug 11, 2020
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I was for several months the watertender aboard a US Navy destroyer and managed the highly efficient triple-stage boiler-condenser that made seawater usable for the crew and the ship. That was decades ago and since then I’ve paid attention to desalination, and even to issues of “Who owns a region’s water?”
The directors of some of the world’s corporations have long been thinking of the future, and I think it reasonable to say the material’s releasing its collected salt has consequences.
@Allamanda I neither counted how many times I edited that “I was for several....” comment nor timed my efforts—maybe eight edits and twenty minutes.
How quickly after I hit “Reply” does the site’s software display a comment? I hit “Reply” the eighth(?) time, look up the screen, and immediately see your alert. The software and you are fast! ‘Fess up.
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