We are surrounded by water, yet fresh drinking water is always an issue. This is because more than 97% of the earth's water ...

Solar desalination: Water covers more than two-thirds of Earth's surface, but 97% of it is saltwater.The salt concentration ...

Imagine a world where clean drinking water is readily available even in the most remote areas. This vision is becoming a reality thanks to innovative research from scientists in Canada. A team of ...

They described all available photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies ... the two variables considered are: (1) the water productivity of PVT-desalination relative to PV desalination and ...

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A group of researchers are working on a new groundbreaking water purification method to deal with the looming issue of global ...

Researchers at MIT and in China have improved the old-fashioned solar ... testing. Desalination is a problem you can approach from many different angles. You can also harvest clean water from ...

The goal is to enhance reliance on solar-powered water desalination in these areas. As part of efforts to boost solar power production and produce fresh water from salty water, Bangladesh's ...

Despite its enormous potential to address water scarcity, solar interfacial desalination remains at only the research level. Here the authors scale up its implementation and identify the key ...

sustainable water? And at scale?" Desalination technology is not new, but it uses high-power pumps and is notoriously energy-intensive (and therefore expensive). The solar-microgrid system that ...

This Review summarizes the recent progress in solar-driven steam generation in diverse functionalizations and highlights its applications beyond water purification and desalination. Despite its ...