- Jeena ( @jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ) 23•11 months ago
I looked it up, it’s around 50 000 liters.
- kboy101222 ( @kboy101222@lemm.ee ) 14•11 months ago
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)
- admiralteal ( @admiralteal@kbin.social ) 3•11 months ago
About 50 cubic meters. An Olympic-sized swimming pool is ~660,000 gallons, so it would take over 50 of them to produce that much water in a day.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 17•11 months ago
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.
- Patch ( @Patch@feddit.uk ) 9•11 months ago
Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!
- kbal ( @kbal@fedia.io ) 15•11 months ago
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.
- rwhitisissle ( @rwhitisissle@beehaw.org ) 12•11 months ago
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
- palitu ( @palitu@aussie.zone ) 8•11 months ago
That is a really cool idea. We often think of renewable energy as electricity. But this bypasses that.
I hope it catches on, and is affordable.
- IHadTwoCows ( @IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ) 6•11 months ago
Thanks to the power of capitalism, we can be assured that this technological breakthrough will never be put into practice
- lol3droflxp ( @lol3droflxp@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
Because nobody wants to sell this?
- TexMexBazooka ( @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ) 7•11 months ago
Because the people in a position to need to pay for desalination of their water are too poor for it to be profitable*
- bedrooms ( @bedrooms@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
I’ll make as much as I can, and Nestle will buy every single drop.
- Steve ( @Steve@startrek.website ) 5•11 months ago
Nestle should be encouraged to get their water from wave powered desalination