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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

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MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun.

The solar-powered system removes salt from water at a pace that closely follows changes in solar energy.

The engineers tested a community-scale prototype on groundwater wells in New Mexico over six months .

The researchers see brackish groundwater as a huge untapped source of potential drinking water.

The new system is able to update its desalination rate three to five times per second .

The faster response time enables the system to adjust to changes in sunlight throughout the day .

Engineers plan to further test and scale up the system in hopes of supplying larger communities with low-cost, fully sun-driven drinking water.

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