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.
What makes this interesting is that its just one of probably a dozen announcements about the production of graphene for various purposes including desalination that I’ve seen in the last year. Here’s a google search of graphene desalination.
http://bit.ly/1NauYgn
You can see that’s there’s a pretty large community including big names with deep pockets working on the problem. And several companies have said they can produce graphene membranes to spec on an industrial scale.
But I have yet to see them in actual products.
There’s still kinks to be worked out.
But probably five years from now the world will look very different.
Its a shame that someone as sharp as Cruz would just promise the moon. That’s not really gob smacking anymore. But promise to turn the world’s desert’s green and double the size of the habitable earth. ...woa... Katy bar the door.
That’s what limited government is all about.