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Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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If the water cycle shuts down to such a degree that the desalinated water is not making it back into the oceans, we have planetary-scale problems far more worrisome than a slightly elevated ocean salinity.
If you had an absolutely huge number of these in a small area, I'm sure you could probably create a localized disturbance in the salinity. But 13k gallons is a pretty trivial amount. That's a 50 meter cube of water per day... in the ocean.