3_layers_deep t1_j222t9f wrote on December 29, 2022 at 2:20 AM

Reply to comment by stewartm0205 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

As an engineer, the project sounds insane. That is a massive structure to stick over of the ocean, and ocean water is highly corrosive so its going to take a ton of maintenance.