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Engineers at MIT and in China develop desalination system which could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)

submitted 10 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The big one being "if it could be scaled up to a size of a suitcase"

That's not very lofty, which makes me all the more skeptical.

[–] fleabomber@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"If" seems like a weird word to use for something the size of a suitcase.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it doesn't instill confidence. Like how small is their proof of concept, if they even have one? Assuming this isn't all theoretical and nothing has been built.