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
Those are going to be some long as spipes indeed if you want to pump brine out without salt spots.
Yeah. It may be “simple” but it’s not going to be cheap. I still think it’ll be cheaper than dedicating huge swaths of coastal land to become brine-drying fields, though.
quite true, although we already have long ass pipes/cables in the ocean for phone/internet connections between continents. So it’s entirely doable, and is already being done for another purpose besides salt.