MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.

More details in their paper here

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      1 year ago

      It will certainly comes with a preposterous amount of salt to deal with. That’s a critical limiting factor with desalination.

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        I thought the salt level in the input rises. So you could cycle the input with fresh salt water and pump the higher salt content stuff back to sea.