105
Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy
(www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
105 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37732 readers
378 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If the water cycle shuts down to such a degree that the desalinated water is not making it back into the oceans, we have planetary-scale problems far more worrisome than a slightly elevated ocean salinity.
If you had an absolutely huge number of these in a small area, I'm sure you could probably create a localized disturbance in the salinity. But 13k gallons is a pretty trivial amount. That's a 50 meter cube of water per day... in the ocean.