We designed a severely complicated ten stage solar collector despite our 20 previous publications about massively simple and cheap methods of doing the same thing that we said each time was revolutionary in water production/collection.
Congratulations MIT. Can we just build some of these instead of finding/funding more?
multiple universities up to 30 years ago
We can make 30 liters of pure water with the fresnel lense from a junk projection TV just by putting two of them over a water tank…
https://www.ijrer.org/ijrer/index.php/ijrer/article/view/3092
MIT now
We designed a severely complicated ten stage solar collector despite our 20 previous publications about massively simple and cheap methods of doing the same thing that we said each time was revolutionary in water production/collection.
Congratulations MIT. Can we just build some of these instead of finding/funding more?
Desalination can be as easy as evaporation. But the volume over time is abysmal.
The faster you clean it the faster you build up the salt.
Like everything, problems appear at scale that aren’t even a concern at the individual level.