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On the flip side I have thought about getting into reverse osmosis as a side business. Afaik reverse osmosis does remove microplastics and most other harmful th
by wppick 5y ago
On the flip side I have thought about getting into reverse osmosis as a side business. Afaik reverse osmosis does remove microplastics and most other harmful things from tap water. And on top of that it makes better tasting tea and coffee imo.
On top of that, reverse osmosis can get drinking water from sea water. It seems that the feasibility of reverse osmosis is directly related to available energy, but wouldn't that be a great use of excess produced electricity vs. storing in batteries?
Of all the things humanity should be looking to make technological improvements in reverse osmosis, or even better solutions (electrolysis?, distilling?), should be pretty high up.
- pstuart 5y agoI've been eagerly awaiting this to become commercially available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distillation_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distill... Not sure it'll ever happen, but it would be huge if it did.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoRO strips all the minerals out, most of which are beneficial to humans - so you need a remineralization cartridge The other problem with RO is that RO systems are incredibly wasteful, using at least an order of magnitude more water than they produce.