Sunlight Helps Turn Salty Water Fresh

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:22PM from the that's-very-kind-of-the-sunlight dept.

MTorrice writes "With energy-efficient desalination techniques, water-starved communities could produce fresh water from salty sources such as seawater and industrial wastewater. But common methods like reverse osmosis require pumping the water, which uses a substantial amount of energy. So some researchers have turned to forward osmosis, because in theory it should use less energy. Now a team has demonstrated a forward osmosis system that desalinates salty water with the help of sunlight. The method uses a pair of hydrogels to absorb and squeeze out freshwater."

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Wait, I've heard this one before! by Somebody+Is+Using+My · 2013-11-12 12:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Desalinating salty water using sunlight?
Oh right.
IT'S CALLED RAIN!
(patent pending)
1. Re:Wait, I've heard this one before! by bob_super · 2013-11-12 12:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Your patent is useless, your technology is just a stream served by my Cloud.
system that desalinates salty water by bob_super · 2013-11-12 12:45 · Score: 1, Funny

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