▲ 275 ▼ Engineers at MIT and in China develop desalination system which could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu) submitted 2 years ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) The big one being "if it could be scaled up to a size of a suitcase" That's not very lofty, which makes me all the more skeptical. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fleabomber@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) "If" seems like a weird word to use for something the size of a suitcase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, it doesn't instill confidence. Like how small is their proof of concept, if they even have one? Assuming this isn't all theoretical and nothing has been built. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fleabomber@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) "If" seems like a weird word to use for something the size of a suitcase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, it doesn't instill confidence. Like how small is their proof of concept, if they even have one? Assuming this isn't all theoretical and nothing has been built. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, it doesn't instill confidence. Like how small is their proof of concept, if they even have one? Assuming this isn't all theoretical and nothing has been built. permalink fedilink source parent