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New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water

New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water
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Stories like this show real progress in protecting our planet and fighting climate change, giving us hope for a sustainable future.
A team of materials scientists in China have developed a solar-powered device that can produce freshwater from seawater with better economics than bottled water. By creating a weave of nanomaterials and organic polymers which were both durable and highly reflective, they created a device that could absorb 90.2% of incoming sunlight and use it to […] The post New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water appeared first on Good News Network.
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