Is desalination going to be the solution to the water crisis? Questions and thoughts

[Darren_Garrison]

A fairly recent related thread:

Awesome new desalinator

Desalination system that uses no external energy except the Sun and does NOT get fouled by salt accumulation. Cost: cheaper than tap water. Unfortunately it’s still in prototype mode, but there’s no expensive components/materials. If there are any problems with commercializing it, they’ll likely be legal, since it was developed by a joint US-Chinese team (MIT & Shanghai Jiao Tong University).