MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water”

Wouldn't nestle themselves benefit from this tech so they can stop catching flak for using local dried out water sheds that are probably harder to get water from than this?

all you guys live in an area with a lot of salt water conveniently avaialble or do you figure the taps will switch to salt for the new fridge filters? also does it get any other gross stuff out besides salt or do you have to prefilter the salt water for non salts stuff.

I don't think you realize just how much salt that's going to be. Plus the brine they get afterwards isn't just pure salt. It has contaminates including sea life. So there's a lot more process to making usable salt.

Also, these seem generally cheap to produce so the chances of smaller cities and vilages to obtain one is pretty high. So even if salt was able to easily able to be gathered from this process, there's going to be a lot of excess salt lying around.

Desalination seems great on the surface, but until we have a solution for brine it's going to be another technology that will only hurt us in the long run.