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New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 05, 2026
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University of Rochester researchers have built a solar-powered desalination device that doesn’t leave behind brine — the concentrated saltwater that conventional plants dump back into the ocean, where it raises salinity and starves sea life of oxygen. The panels are black metal etched with femtosecond lasers, so the surfac…

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