Student project consumes 17% of energy of traditional desalination plants

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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 brine solution will contain concentrated amounts of elements, like lithium. That concentrated solution may be economicly viable to process.

Fine. What do you do about the salt?

Fine. What do you do about the salt?

We distribute it to fanbases across the internet, who are adept at managing it.

Most media requires a lot of salt to give to their users, we'll never run out of demand for it

My idea was you take it to a played-out salt mine, and you just put it right back in.