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Engineers at MIT and in China develop desalination system which could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10286254

It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Seriously doubt that. All water ends up in the ocean anyway, one way or another.
But dumping brine in could wipe the life in that spot.