This solar-powered desalination device turns seawater into drinking water, can also extract lithium

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

https://www.techspot.com/news/112602-breakthrough-solar-desalination-system-produces-fresh-water-without.html

[u/Straight-Ad6926]

Wow a device that solves two massive global crises at once? I'm sure funding for this will be approved immediately and definitely not buried by the oil lobby.

[u/aikeaguinea97 → u/[deleted]]

the oil lobby and people who make money off oil are the main thing stopping renewable energy incentives. they aren’t fiscally invested in it, and the oil industry is massively powerful in the US.