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I'm really sorry for the nitpicking but this is not desalination :) it is a substitute for desalination though.

• googlryas 4y ago
  As I see it, the sun is desalinating the ocean and the nets collect it, no?
  • mdp2021 4y ago
    Desalination is when you have salty water and remove salt. Processing is when from some state you get a different one - here, your system already starts from "the different one" found in nature.
    • googlryas 4y ago
      I'm counting the sun shining on the ocean evaporating water as part of the system!
      • mdp2021 4y ago
        Yes, clearly, but if you call something a "desalination plant", you state that the chief thing it does is to remove salt. Instead, the chief thing these devices do is to collect water - and that would be valid even extending the system /before/ the device input. Sure, then the whole system is a "collector of desalinized water" - which is different. The term 'plant' is valid for the artifact device only (the desalination occurs outside the plant) - you do not plant the sun.