Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study

Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by tristor on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:51PM (#27755359)

Wow, that’s incredible. Since it uses electricity for it’s energy input, this could be readily adapted for use in remote areas powered by solar plus battery. Even in Western nations this is a boon to treat well water sources instead of shock chlorination.

This combined with GAC filtration can produce very clean water anywhere you can get sunlight.

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Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by wanderingmind on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:35PM (#27755699)

It needs gold and platinum catalyst. The trouble would be there would be no catalyst in the plant to process water, the day after it is deployed in a remote area.

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Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by Algol on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:56PM (#27756193)

*palladium

Though I guess that is also a precious metal.

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Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by wanderingmind on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:37PM (#27756416)

Catalysts are made from inert metals which are all expensive.

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Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by riknos314 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:55PM (#27755396)

The amount of electricity required wasn't mentioned, so while I'm hopeful that you're right I'm worried that the energy requirements will be prohibitive to adoption in many areas.

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Re:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better:... by jimmaswell on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:16PM (#27755544)

This is reminding me of the water purification device in Fallout 3.

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