{"id":138788,"date":"2022-04-29T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/from-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button"},"modified":"2022-04-29T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:22:18","slug":"from-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/from-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button","title":{"rendered":"From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0fpwlRPZRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel, which can be purchased online for around $50. It automatically generates drinking <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> that exceeds World Health Organization quality standards. The technology is packaged into a user-friendly device that runs with the push of one button.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other portable desalination units that require water to pass through filters, this device utilizes <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical power<\/a> to remove particles from drinking water. Eliminating the need for replacement filters greatly reduces the long-term maintenance requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel, which can be purchased online for around $50. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138788","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}