{"id":92314,"date":"2019-06-18T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/engineers-boost-output-of-solar-desalination-system"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T02:22:24","slug":"engineers-boost-output-of-solar-desalination-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/engineers-boost-output-of-solar-desalination-system","title":{"rendered":"Engineers boost output of solar desalination system"},"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\/z36jMKk-AdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rice University\u2019s solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Rice\u2019s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) this week showed they could boost the efficiency of their solar-powered desalination system by more than 50% simply by adding inexpensive plastic lenses to concentrate sunlight into \u201chot spots.\u201d The results are available online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe typical way to boost performance in solar-driven systems is to add solar concentrators and bring in more light,\u201d said Pratiksha Dongare, a graduate student in applied physics at Rice\u2019s Brown School of Engineering and co-lead author of the paper. \u201cThe big difference here is that we\u2019re using the same amount of light. We\u2019ve shown it\u2019s possible to inexpensively redistribute that power and dramatically increase the rate of purified <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> production.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University\u2019s solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed. Researchers in Rice\u2019s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) this week showed they could boost the efficiency of their solar-powered desalination system by more than 50% simply by adding inexpensive plastic lenses to concentrate sunlight into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92314","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}