I looked it up, it’s around 50 000 liters.
So about 25,000 peoples minimum drinking water per day per bouy. Not too bad there.
Or the overall average water usage of ~13.2 people (went with the first number cause I ain’t researching things rn)
About 50 cubic meters. An Olympic-sized swimming pool is ~660,000 gallons, so it would take over 50 of them to produce that much water in a day.
As an engineer and lover of invention, I find the words “wave-powered desalinization” to be damn-near sexually arousing in their elegance and promise.
Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!
Does anyone have a better source of info about this? I’ve found “good news” in the names of things to be a reliable indicator of people who seem to believe they’re trying to make the world better while polluting the information environment as much as any other fake news site. I’d rate the article as slightly less credible than a press release from the company itself.
The thing is that you probably won’t find anything that looks too closely at the efficacy of the claims, because the claims are all that anything is reporting on, since the product is so new. Here is a similar article published on asme.org (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), that discusses the buoys and the company’s claims surrounding them: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/tapping-the-ocean
That is a really cool idea. We often think of renewable energy as electricity. But this bypasses that.
I hope it catches on, and is affordable.
I’ll make as much as I can, and Nestle will buy every single drop.
Nestle should be encouraged to get their water from wave powered desalination
