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MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water”
(scitechdaily.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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Sounds great- I’ll believe it when it enters wide scale use.
I'll believe it when nestle buys the patent and buries it
Wouldn't nestle themselves benefit from this tech so they can stop catching flak for using local dried out water sheds that are probably harder to get water from than this?
They’ll buy out this, use it to produce water at bargain prices, and charge twice the price for that water because it’s “green”
They’ll then sell it back to the places they’ve been stealing from for decades, and call it charity. Rubes will eat it up as nestle turning a new leaf, and the shareholders will take in more billions of dollars off the suffering of families.
Nah you're absolutely right, my optimism needed to be taken down a peg
As with any tech/product like this. I’m with you lol
I'll believe it when it's on sale next to the Brita filters.
all you guys live in an area with a lot of salt water conveniently avaialble or do you figure the taps will switch to salt for the new fridge filters? also does it get any other gross stuff out besides salt or do you have to prefilter the salt water for non salts stuff.
From the article, its essentially a solar powered distillation device. Since it's distilling the water you wouldn't have to worry about other contaminants, they would all be left behind with the salt. Of course there's nothing wrong with running it through a reverse osmosis system but you'll probably want to add minerals back into the water if you were to do anything to it.
A lot of those reverse osmosis systems do add minerals back in I believe.