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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)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10286254

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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[–] flathead@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

thanks for posting the supplement, which goes into considerable detail. There is also this diagram which shows how it works:

diagram of desalination device showing how water flows through an inner chamber with a membrane