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zenwarrior01 t1_j20ehmq wrote

Reply to comment by Jaded_Prompt_15 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

The article even mentions:

>The researchers said one of the more elegant features of this proposed solution is that it works like the natural water cycle.
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>“The difference is that we can guide where the evaporated water from the ocean goes,” Dominguez said.

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Jaded_Prompt_15 t1_j20enup wrote

Yep, so wherever it would have gone, it doesn't.

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zenwarrior01 t1_j20soro wrote

Well, what I contemplated was the idea that this could potentially (if done at absolutely massive scale?) actually decrease flooding via massive rainfall and increase water in areas that need it most (something the article also alluded to). If only we could do that with wind someday too. Of course all of this boils down to temperature differences, global warming and such.

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