So, the contaminants will be in the air and your food instead of your water?
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Interesting.
Sounds like a mega version of the “Life Straw” used by hikers and campers to drink clean water from bad ponds and creeks.
If they add a nano-coating of silver, then they’ve also got some good microbial qualities as well.
Hmmmm. I am either behind on my tech (the most likely) or confused about the claim that this has never been done before. I remember posting somewhere about the potential for desalination using graphene about 4 years ago. That may have been the initial research done on it, or more likely, this is a new engineering application.
This is -either way- wonderful. Lack of potable water is one of the greatest health issues in the world. The person who devises a way to treat water unsuitable for consumption and/or crop production will do a mercy and kindness to future generations that will exceed that of Pasteur, Salk, Fleming (discoverer of penicillin)and others combined.
The engineering genius and adaptability of men to subdue the earth is a thing of wonder. Hard not to be optimistic some times.
The day is young ... but that is probably the stupidest sentence I will read today.
More silver is going up, kill it, graphene stories. (Not a criticism of OP)
love carbon nanotubes and graphene for desalination. both have been in the news for over a decade as being revolutionary membranes.
But neither of them ever seem to get from the labratory to the desalination plant.
there are still a number of manufacturing problems.