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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.