PubicHair_Salesman t1_j20m1eh wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:11 PM Reply to comment by Techutante 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 Trouble is that the parts of the earth where desalination is necessary are typically very far from places where brine solution is needed to thaw roads. Permalink Parent 26
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Reply to comment by Techutante 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
Trouble is that the parts of the earth where desalination is necessary are typically very far from places where brine solution is needed to thaw roads.