From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

Re:From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button by tomxor on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:29AM (#31201770)

Note that they are not merely aiming for portability, but efficient portability.

This particular passage is suggestive of their device being more efficient than RO at small scales, although no figures are given for comparison:

> Commercially available portable desalination units typically require high-pressure pumps to push water through filters, which are very difficult to miniaturize without compromising the energy-efficiency of the device, explains Yoon.

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Re:From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button by MichaelApproved on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:40AM (#31201823)

Good point. I wish articles like these would include figures. I’d love to know what they calculate RO efficiency to be at small scales and how far away they are from beating it.

Sure, that might be boring for some readers but they could throw a couple of sentences about it at the bottom.

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