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New metal panel turns seawater into drinking water using sunlight - C C - Nov 9, 2026 Like so many inventions, the world will never hear anything of this one again. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New metal panel turns seawater into drinking water using sunlight https://studyfinds.com/metal-panel-seawater-drinking-water/ A metal panel made fresh water from real seawater using the sun’s heat, and it captured nearly all of the salt as a solid instead of releasing liquid brine. A laser-etched, grooved surface pushes salt toward the panel’s edges, so the working area stays clear without chemical additives. In a week of indoor testing on Atlantic water, the panel kept working, and samples from the Pacific and Indian Oceans gave similar rates. It is still a small lab prototype, and cost, durability, and community-scale output have not been tested. Two-thirds of the world’s population faces severe water shortages, according to the authors, yet the planet’s biggest water supply, the ocean, is undrinkable. Plants that strip out the salt exist, but widely used ones discharge 58 to 78 percent of the water they take in as brine, a harmful mix of concentrated salt and chemicals. A metal panel built at the University of Rochester produced fresh water from real seawater while locking away nearly all of the salt as a solid, with no liquid brine going back into the tank it drew from... (MORE - details)