Student project consumes 17% of energy of traditional desalination plants

cyu@sh.itjust.worksbanned from community to Technology@lemmy.world – 362 points – This solar desalination plant invent by students from Malaga and also produces green hydrogen - Biggrow
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Offers better brine handling and produces higher-purity water, making it ideal for offshore green hydrogen production. Sustainable and efficient solution with low environmental impact.

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The article says the desalination plant designed by this student uses 17% of the power a normal desalination plant, meaning a 5+x reduction in energy consumption.

"With nine square meters, it consumes only 17% of energy compared to traditional desalination plants."

Comparing based on size doesn't seem too useful. How many square meters is a "traditional desalination plant"? How much salty water can it purify into drinkable water given a certain amount of energy compared to the student's design?

I hope it's an improvement over existing designs, but unfortunately this article doesn't have any actual content. It's clickbait that hopes people will jump to conclusions like "it's a 5x reduction in energy compared to the traditional approach" because that drives traffic.

About as much clickbait as the team’s titles. I wonder if they called in the senior hygiene engineer after someone took a big dump in the toilet:

María Martínez leads the engineering team, Pedro Benito is responsible for information technology systems, Ignacio Colombo is the director of operations, Juanjo Vallejo is the executive director, and Ayman Bouachi and Andrés Florido are the engineer’s mechanical and electrical, respectively. Alejandro Rodríguez is the director of the School of Engineering and the mentor of this project at UMA.

It’s a student project in which they’re probably supposed to be approaching it from a business perspective anyway.

In which cases they’re pretty much normal titles. “Director of” is usually a non profit title while the equivalents in this case would be “COO (Chief Operations Officer)” for director of operations. Executive director would be CEO. And then you have usual VP level titles with IT Director and Engineering Director. And then you have two engineers, a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer.