A sheet of metal, barely larger than a notebook, sits under a lamp in a University of Rochester lab. Seawater creeps up its ...
The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...
Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...
Two 150 mL cylindrical glass chambers sit on a ledge outdoors. Inside each chamber is an electrode submerged in a cloudy tan liquid. The electrodes are connected to a solar panel sitting behind them.
Forward-looking: At the University of Rochester, a research team is rethinking desalination by approaching it as a materials science challenge as much as a water treatment problem. Instead of relying ...
Floating solar arrays are an increasingly popular solution to rising energy demands, but Australia is finding out they're good for more than power.