{"id":168114,"date":"2023-07-22T04:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button"},"modified":"2023-07-22T04:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T09:22:32","slug":"mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists Turn 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>Now that\u2019s something mach can use.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT researchers have recently developed a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts to turn seawater into drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The suitcase-sized device, weighing less than ten kilograms, requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger and can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel.<\/p>\n<p>It automatically generates drinking water that exceeds World Health Organization quality standards. The technology is packaged into a user-friendly device that runs with the push of a button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that\u2019s something mach can use. MIT researchers have recently developed a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts to turn seawater into drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, weighing less than ten kilograms, requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger and can also be driven by a small, portable solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"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-168114","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\/168114","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}