[ckilmer]

This tech will kill the cost of water desalination and enable the conversion of deserts world wide to crop land. That is, they'll essentially be able to turn the deserts green and double the size of the habitable earth

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

That would threaten the habitat of the tilt-winged snail darter. We can’t have that!

[Disambiguator]

Paging Moonbeam Brown.

[Maine Mariner]

Well that will spoil the Zero Population Growth Folk’s supper.

[RetiredTexasVet]

There you go throwing a monkey wrench into the justification for killing off 5.5 billion excessive unnecessary people. I hope you realize Dr. John Holdren is going to throw the book of Settled Science at you for daring to insinuate that more that 500 million beings can inhabit Mother Earth.

[GeronL]

Eco-nuts will hate it and want it banned

[Fungi]

So much for the Enviro-nazis and their false narrative of “carrying capacity.”

[Jeff Chandler]

Nanoporous graphene RO membranes allow desal at 1% of the energy previously required. The obstacle is the production of the membranes, and the Koreans are working on 3D printing them, so we are close to cost-effective desal.

[Sherman Logan]

Would have been a lot better article if they’d provided some estimates on cost or energy savings for the two methods.

Will this method reduce cost of desal by 10% or 90%? Big difference.

[HangnJudge]

My backyard

http://www.ornl.gov/

[BeauBo]

I remember seeing that the Gates foundation had come to the conclusion that the greatest good that could be done for the greatest number, was to find ways to provide plentiful and cheap fresh water and energy.

Pretty much the rest could work itself out, but these were the long poles in the tent of improving the human condition.

I guess that such filters could have a big role in waste water treatment as well.

[razorback-bert]

Perhaps, my grapheme stock will now go up.

[Rebel_Ace]

Funny, real science and engineering catching up to a Sci-Fi prediction from 1967:

The Wintergreen Membrane
Inventor: Harrison Wintergreen

from the story:
Carcinoma Angels
by Norman Spinrad

I read this when I was in 10th grade back in 1976.