Brilliant!

I always thought desalination and solar power are so naturally tegether. Don’t we see vast salt ponds lining the coast? All of them use solar power to evaporate the water. If we would capture those vapors, we got water. Right?

Someone thought of the same, but much more ingeniously. Mr. Saprrow and Mr.Zoshi, two Canadian engineers, came up with a much efficent way. They turn sea water into concentrated brine with soloar power, the good old salt pond style. The brine would then draw out the salt from normal sea water, pretty much by pure magic.

Someone, someday, I always believed, would find a way to provide fresh water to the world from the sea. This technology will be so much appreciated by China, a country facing a water crisis and has a long coast line.

So cool.

Posted under Peek into my mind by sinyaw on Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 8:39 am

2 Comments »

  1. Comment by amit — November 3, 2009 @ 11:24 pm

    Yes, countries like India and China which have long coast lines and are facing drinking water crisis can benefit a lot using this !

  2. Comment by meri — November 4, 2009 @ 3:52 pm

    but then you can’t have awesome scifi thrillers about killer vortexes…

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