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So for about $26 - you could extract enough water to water a fruit tree indefinitely. Doesn't seem like this would be used for agriculture at scale - but it su
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
So for about $26 - you could extract enough water to water a fruit tree indefinitely.
Doesn't seem like this would be used for agriculture at scale - but it sure could beat digging a well to get water for a house.
- astroid 4y agoI'm going to copy this comment I saw on slashdot re: this yesterday that seemed to let some of the air out of the whole press release: "The salt mentioned is not table salt, but lithium chloride. Lithium chloride - which makes up a half by weight of the film, and is also in obvious demand for batteries, is $70/kg or so in bulk." I haven't really dug in deep myself, but this is the comment that deflated me when reading about this yesterday, so worth looking into at least imo