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I hope you're not being serious lol. The article says the desalination plant designed by this student uses 17% of the power a normal desalination plant, meaning a 5+x reduction in energy consumption.
I know you're just trying to get me to read the article instead of commenting on the headline like I know what it's all about, but that's not going to happen!
The article is meh on details (other than to disclose it was a team and that they want to focus this on green hydrogen).
I gotcha... someone else dug up the UMA paper and it's a condensation system. So nothing new really, other then it being floating in the ocean. Maybe something new... they said that paper was also light on some details.
"With nine square meters, it consumes only 17% of energy compared to traditional desalination plants."
Comparing based on size doesn't seem too useful. How many square meters is a "traditional desalination plant"? How much salty water can it purify into drinkable water given a certain amount of energy compared to the student's design?
I hope it's an improvement over existing designs, but unfortunately this article doesn't have any actual content. It's clickbait that hopes people will jump to conclusions like "it's a 5x reduction in energy compared to the traditional approach" because that drives traffic.
About as much clickbait as the team’s titles. I wonder if they called in the senior hygiene engineer after someone took a big dump in the toilet:
It’s a student project in which they’re probably supposed to be approaching it from a business perspective anyway.
In which cases they’re pretty much normal titles. “Director of” is usually a non profit title while the equivalents in this case would be “COO (Chief Operations Officer)” for director of operations. Executive director would be CEO. And then you have usual VP level titles with IT Director and Engineering Director. And then you have two engineers, a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer.