According to MIT, this technology works even at small scale, with one the size of a suitcase able to desalinate 6 litres per hour, and only needing to be serviced every few years.
According to MIT, this technology works even at small scale, with one the size of a suitcase able to desalinate 6 litres per hour, and only needing to be serviced every few years.
A person uses some 200 litres per day.
One suitcase according to their description makes 144 litres per day. So this is pretty big if it actually scales.
200 is on the high end, and not all of it needs to be desalinated
Depends on the person - I have seen households where a person uses less than 20 liters per day. :)
Besides, seawater can be used to wash oneself or flush a toilet - I think it’s the use of drinking water that makes a difference.
200 liters is with bathing, cooking, toilets, and all the other conveniences of modern life in industrialized Western society.
This device is aimed at small scale off grid household use - people who don’t have public water or sewer and naturally use much less.