MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System

An anonymous reader writes "A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Field and Space Robotic Laboratory has designed a new solar-powered water desalination system to provide drinking water to disaster zones and disadvantaged parts of the planet. Desalination systems often require a lot of energy and a large infrastructure to support them, but MIT's compact system is able to cope due to its ingenious design. The system's photovoltaic panel is able to generate power for the pump, which in turn pushes undrinkable seawater through a permeable membrane. MIT's prototype can reportedly produce 80 gallons of drinking water per day, depending on weather conditions."

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Re:80 US gallons

[sempir]

Getting random creeks into a C130 has it's own inherent problems...leakage being one. Stacking is another, causes apeshittedness big time.

Re:80 US gallons

[deimtee]

And you really have to be careful not to cross the streams.