A New Solar-Power Device Can Turn Salt Water Into Clean Drinking Water and Produce Electricity at the Same Time
4th September 2019
To build the prototype, the researchers installed a water distiller on the back of a solar cell. When in sunlight, the cell produces electricity and releases heat like a typical solar panel. But instead of sending that heat back into the atmosphere, the device directs it to the distiller, which uses the heat as an energy source to power the desalination process.
Very clever.