MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids the salt-clogging issues of other designs. Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun. In a pap
Most of the shit will remain down with the salt, as they’re too dense to flow upwards with the water vapor.
Btw, that’s pretty much distilled water, right? While drinkable, it’ll be lacking some needed minerals, no?
No. You can get those minerals from your food. It is safe to drink distilled water. But there is a lot of misinformation about distilled water, I have even had people tell me it can kill them! Water is water. Get your minerals from food.
Tbf, chugging over a gallon of distilled water in one go will actually kill you though
Better than chugging a gallon of artificial sweetener, caffiene and flavours.
Isn’t a gallon almost four litres? A gallon of anything is going to be dangerous to drink all at once.
That’s the joke
Good to know, I had the misconception that you could only get some never specified minerals from freshwater and that distilled water would leave you mostly thirsty.
Likely from some company trying to sell expensive foul tasting “sports water”. Eat a bag of crisps with your water if you are really concerned about your salt intake.
Drinking distilled water will not leave you thirsty. And on a study here in Australia on teenagers drinking electrolyte sport drink vs water while doing athletics, it was proven there was better athletic performance from the water drinkers… Which brings a lot of the advertising into question.
Brawndo’s got what humans crave. It’s got electrolytes!
Sorry, what study exactly?
Electrolyte (e.g. Potassium) replacement during intense exercise is essential. That’s why every athlete nowadays uses it.
It’s literally distilled water. I don’t know what this technology does that other evaporative distillation systems don’t already do, besides being solar powered.