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New desalination system turns seawater into drinking water and useful salts, including lithium (www.rochester.edu)

submitted 5 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Jimny_Crkt@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 months ago

Solar distillation with a novel approach to dealing with the salt left after the water evaporates. Pretty neat.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

specially engineered black metal

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[–] chocrates@piefed.world 3 points 5 months ago

I got really excited but femtosecond laser etching is probably not something I can replicate in a home lab.

Hopefully it scales and is something we could buy soon