Light Can Evaporate Water Without Heat
By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 4, 2023MIT scientists have discovered that light can cause evaporation at ...
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Desalination Plants, a Solution and an Environmental Challenge for Chile — Global Issues
If the desalination plants win the bet, Chile's water delivery trucks, with their unpredictable schedules and high operating costs, will ...
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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that is more efficient and less expensive than previous methods. In this ...
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Quenching the world’s thirst with off-grid water desalination
The first desalination plant in Europe was built in Spain nearly a half century ago. Since then, facilities have sprung ...
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Getting smart about off-grid desalination
The performance of a device that can desalinate water using waste heat from solar cells, first developed by KAUST scientists ...
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Saudi Arabia suspends $2B sale of desalination plant | Business and Economy News
The disruption, blamed on the coronavirus pandemic, is seen as a setback to the kingdom’s privatisation plans.By Matthew Martin and ...
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Breakthrough in reverse osmosis may lead to most energy-efficient seawater desalination ever
Graduate students Abhimanyu Das (left) and Akshay Rao adjust a piston tank, the key component to a new desalination process ...
Read moreSolar-powered desalination unit shows great promise
Solar-powered desalination unit consists of three layers: wicking material, a thermal insulator, and a paper-based solar light absorber containing titanium. ...
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Improved desalination process also removes toxic metals to produce clean water
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals, like mercury and boron, ...
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