This could actually be one of the single most important innovations of the 21st century, this could save potentially billions of lives as the climate worsens.
BUT AT WHAT COST???
But but but the Californians told me this would cost a trillion dollars and would have to violate the second law of thermodynamics!
Dogshit article. “China does X” without it saying who actually did it, and with no link to the work. Looked a bit more and found the actual paper about it.
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.73756
Seems pretty cool. I need to read it in more detail, but it seems like it could have nice agricultural effects in less centralized economies. Lots of smaller scale water production sources for crops. I doubt it’ll scale directly to the rate of large industrial desalination plants, but progress is good. A variety of methods can often be better, using appropriate tools to the right situation.
