As an engineer and lover of invention, I find the words “wave-powered desalinization” to be damn-near sexually arousing in their elegance and promise.
Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!
I looked it up, it’s around 50 000 liters.
So about 25,000 peoples minimum drinking water per day per bouy. Not too bad there.
Or the overall average water usage of ~13.2 people (went with the first number cause I ain’t researching things rn)
Does anyone have a better source of info about this? I’ve found “good news” in the names of things to be a reliable indicator of people who seem to believe they’re trying to make the world better while polluting the information environment as much as any other fake news site. I’d rate the article as slightly less credible than a press release from the company itself.
The thing is that you probably won’t find anything that looks too closely at the efficacy of the claims, because the claims are all that anything is reporting on, since the product is so new. Here is a similar article published on asme.org (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), that discusses the buoys and the company’s claims surrounding them: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/tapping-the-ocean
Thanks to the power of capitalism, we can be assured that this technological breakthrough will never be put into practice
Because nobody wants to sell this?
Because the people in a position to need to pay for desalination of their water are too poor for it to be profitable*
fishes better like a much saltier ocean
If the water cycle shuts down to such a degree that the desalinated water is not making it back into the oceans, we have planetary-scale problems far more worrisome than a slightly elevated ocean salinity.
If you had an absolutely huge number of these in a small area, I’m sure you could probably create a localized disturbance in the salinity. But 13k gallons is a pretty trivial amount. That’s a 50 meter cube of water per day… in the ocean.
I’ll make as much as I can, and Nestle will buy every single drop.
Nestle should be encouraged to get their water from wave powered desalination
Be a shame if a military force shut Nestle down for theft and environmental terrorism and imprisoned all of the governing board.
But authorities protecting resources from exploitation would be …authoritarian
