Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...

This Practical Engineering documentary explores why turning seawater into drinking water remains expensive despite the existence of more than 18,000 desalination plants worldwide. Engineer Grady ...

A new solar-powered desalination method could produce drinking water from seawater without chemical additives, according to a promising study. With millions of people lacking access to safe drinking ...

Scientists have developed a solar-powered desalination system that turns seawater into fresh water while removing nearly all of the leftover salt as a solid instead of producing harmful brine. The ...

Wastewater from some Texas oil fields could provide an abundant alternative to the freshwater consumed by large data centers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three companies are leveraging modern technology to reshape the future of commercial desalination, making the process cleaner, ...

The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to the Middle East rely on desalination plants to convert ocean water to fresh ...

The solar-powered system uses specially engineered black metal to absorb sunlight. Its self-cleaning surface separates and collects salts, instead of dumping them as harmful brine waste. From the ...

This study presents a thermal design of solar stills by utilizing waste heat from thermal power plant cooling water. The main objective is to enhance energy recovery with solar still technology and ...

Image: Imperial College London, Desalination, Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 A research team in the United Kingdom has looked at how the combination of photovoltaics and solar thermal (ST) energy ...

A research team led by Professor Yongwon Seo in the Graduate School of Carbon Neutrality at UNIST has unveiled a highly efficient method for desalinating seawater using hydrate-based desalination (HBD ...