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I've read that we are starting up use other sources of heat to do desalination projects. There's so many sources of heat that we are just dissipating into the a

• drawkbox 3y ago
  Concentrated solar stills is one way [1][2] A great thing about desalination with stills is it uses the natural water cycle, the water that comes out is cleaner than any other as it uses that. > A concentrated solar still is a system that uses the same quantity of solar heat input (same solar collection area) as a simple solar still but can produce a volume of freshwater that is many times greater. While a simple solar still is a way of distilling water by using the heat of the sun to drive evaporation from a water source and ambient air to cool a condenser film, a concentrated solar still uses a concentrated solar thermal collector to concentrate solar heat and deliver it to a multi-effect evaporation process for distillation, thus increasing the natural rate of evaporation. The concentrated solar still is capable of large-scale water production in areas with plentiful solar energy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_still