▲ 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.
[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 39 points 2 years ago (3 children) I will give it few weeks and we will no longer hear about it. There are many articles like this but as always nothing is developed. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago This article was from September, and so far I haven't heard any updates. permalink fedilink source parent [–] maniel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago I remember seeing it here a month ago... permalink fedilink source parent [–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago A significant amount of researchers seem to author these kinds of papers that sound great but then can't be reliably reproduced, or are completely impractical in application. The NileRed video about his attempts to create the compressed wood "armor" was very illuminating to this point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago This article was from September, and so far I haven't heard any updates. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago I remember seeing it here a month ago... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago A significant amount of researchers seem to author these kinds of papers that sound great but then can't be reliably reproduced, or are completely impractical in application. The NileRed video about his attempts to create the compressed wood "armor" was very illuminating to this point. permalink fedilink source parent