are a couple of lines from a poem,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in fact, written by SamuelTaylor Coleridge, it tells of the mariners voyage where he famously shot the
albatross, and his lack of water, but if MIT’s Professor Martin Bazant manages
to upscale his teams latest work producing fresh water from seawater the
mariners fresh water problem would have been solved using Professor Bazant's
inexpensive procedure, his team shocks the water sample and has successfully
removed over 99 percent of salts while recovering up to 79 percent of the water
used in the experiments, they also found it can remove various contaminants
such as dirt and bacteria, this how it works, a small electric current is
applied across the sintered glass material and the salt ions gather on one side
of the flow, in turn creating an ion-rich side and an ion-deficient side, once
the current is increased sufficiently, the charged surface of the porous glass
essentially generates a shockwave that divides the flowing water into two
separate streams, one with desalinated drinking water and the other with salt,
the two streams are separated at the centre of the flow, the group published their findings on
November 3 in the journal Environmental Science Technology, in a recent press release, the researchers noted that the system they’re working on “opens up a
whole range of new possibilities for water desalination, both from seawater and
brackish water resources, such as groundwater.” one can only wish the team
success when so much of the world needs cheaply produced fresh drinking water.
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