{"id":127119,"date":"2021-09-02T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/solar-domes-could-desalinate-seawater-at-a-commercial-scale"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:22:20","slug":"solar-domes-could-desalinate-seawater-at-a-commercial-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/solar-domes-could-desalinate-seawater-at-a-commercial-scale","title":{"rendered":"Solar Domes Could Desalinate Seawater at a Commercial Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-domes-could-desalinate-seawater-at-a-commercial-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>71 percent of the Earth is covered in water, but only 3 percent of that is freshwater. The effective desalination of seawater at a mass scale would clearly be a world-changing achievement, celebrated the world over.<\/p>\n<p>With that goal in mind, London-based Solar Water PLC recently signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian government as part of the country\u2019s clean future $500 billion \u201cNEOM\u201d project. The company is building the \u201cfirst desalination plant with solar dome technology\u201d, a <em>CNN Arabia<\/em> report (translated on <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarwaterplc.com\/company-news\/green-technology-in-the-neom-project-and-others-how-will-it-change-the-rules-of-the-game-in-the-gulf\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Water PLC\u2019s website<\/a>) explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>71 percent of the Earth is covered in water, but only 3 percent of that is freshwater. The effective desalination of seawater at a mass scale would clearly be a world-changing achievement, celebrated the world over. With that goal in mind, London-based Solar Water PLC recently signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian government as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}