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Techutante t1_j22sq04 wrote

Reply to comment by thatawesomedrunkguy in UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

They apparently mine brine for various minerals and trace metals, I was just reading. Rare earth elements and whatnot.

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