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By 2030, according to the United Nations nearly half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas if no preventive actions are taken. Water reuse technologies and measures to reduce water usage can only serve as temporary relief for the upcoming water crisis. Jiajun Cen, CTO at Desolenator, lays out the case for solar powered desalination as a solution.
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Illustration of Desolenator’s solar PV-T powered desalination technology using multi-effect distillation with vapor compression. | Image: Desolenator

About 96.5% of the water on our planet is in oceans and seas, and to unlock this resource we will have to desalinate. Most desalination plants today are powered by fossil fuels. This is not sustainable and accelerates climate change.An initial step in making water desalination more sustainable is simply switching to renewable energy. The …

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