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This circulation, combined with the sun’s heat, drives water to evaporate, leaving salt behind. The resulting water vapor can then be condensed and collected as pure, drinkable water.

This is not a chemical desalination. It's a classic solar distiller. The output is distilled water. You actually want to cut it with a bit of seawater, because drinking distilled water pulls salts and minerals out of you, and then you die.

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Axiochus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Drinking distilled water is actually not that dangerous, so long as you get salts some other way (food!). In order for distilled water to cause runaway deplasmolytic processes, you’d need to spend a lot of time only drinking that, afair from high school bio.

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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean you die if you only drink distilled water and never consume anything else, but the same is still true of mineral water

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- Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was unclear - that's exactly what I meant. I was thinking fo a suitcase-sized still being used in an emergency or survival scenario, for a time anything other than "very short term."
  
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