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Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy
(www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
I looked it up, it's around 50 000 liters.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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So about 25,000 peoples minimum drinking water per day per bouy. Not too bad there.
Or the overall average water usage of ~13.2 people (went with the first number cause I ain't researching things rn)
As an engineer and lover of invention, I find the words “wave-powered desalinization” to be damn-near sexually arousing in their elegance and promise.
Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!
Does anyone have a better source of info about this? I've found "good news" in the names of things to be a reliable indicator of people who seem to believe they're trying to make the world better while polluting the information environment as much as any other fake news site. I'd rate the article as slightly less credible than a press release from the company itself.
The thing is that you probably won't find anything that looks too closely at the efficacy of the claims, because the claims are all that anything is reporting on, since the product is so new. Here is a similar article published on asme.org (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), that discusses the buoys and the company's claims surrounding them: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/tapping-the-ocean
That is a really cool idea. We often think of renewable energy as electricity. But this bypasses that.
I hope it catches on, and is affordable.
Thanks to the power of capitalism, we can be assured that this technological breakthrough will never be put into practice
fishes better like a much saltier ocean
Assuming:
Current ocean salinity = 35 kg / m3.
Current ocean volume = 1.4 * 1018 m3.
Current human fresh water usage = 4 * 109 m**3.
(35 * 1.4 * 1018) / (1.4 * 1018 - 4 * 10**9).
= 35.0000001 kg / m**3. = New ocean salinity.
I think they'll be okay.
Apologies double didn't realize the double asterisks would screw up the formatting. 1.4 trillion trillion cubic meters ocean volume. 4 trillion cubic meters fresh water consumption