planetcaravanman t1_j20rmsh wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:48 PM Reply to 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 I love the idea of this. Especially if there were several along the coast. Seems like it would make more sense to have the pipe carrying the harvested water to the shore plant underground. The illustration above looks a little flimsy. Permalink 1
planetcaravanman t1_j20rmsh wrote
Reply to 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
I love the idea of this. Especially if there were several along the coast. Seems like it would make more sense to have the pipe carrying the harvested water to the shore plant underground. The illustration above looks a little flimsy.