Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 16:22 in Physics & Chemistry

A federally funded research effort to revolutionize water treatment has yielded a direct solar desalination technology that uses energy from sunlight alone to heat salt water for membrane distillation. The technology could provide off-grid water treatment for some of the 1 billion people who lack access to clean water.

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