Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Easier
17th December 2016
Access to steady supplies of clean water is getting more and more difficult in the developing world, especially as demand skyrockets. In response, many countries have turned to the sea for potable fluids but existing reverse osmosis plants rely on complicated processes that are expensive and energy-intensive to operate. Good thing, engineers at Lockheed Martin have just announced a newly-developed salt filter that could reduce desalinization energy costs by 99 percent.
December 18th, 2016 at 10:59
Drinkable? Doable. Affordable? Nah.
But all things are possible given enough time and money…