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This is very difficult in practice. Progress is being made on making efficient and scalable solar stills though. The US DoE is even running a challenge on this
by Y_Y 5y ago
This is very difficult in practice. Progress is being made on making efficient and scalable solar stills though. The US DoE is even running a challenge on this topic: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/american-made-challenges-solar-desalination-prize https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/american-made-challenges-s...
- dogma1138 5y agoIsrael desalinate 80% of their household water. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/how-israel-used-desalination-to-address-its-water-shortage-1.3959532?mode=amp https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/how-israe... It’s population is 8M, Jordan is 10M at least as far as the article goes seems like the model can work for them too.
- Y_Y 5y agoCool. It looks like it costs them about 0.5 USD /m^3 which is relatively cheap, and they're in the process of building more plants.
- sokoloff 5y agoIndeed. I pay a little over $1/cubic meter of water from our municipal supply in an area with plentiful natural water. They’re treating natural water, but even if they had to desalinate, my bill would stay the same order of magnitude.