MIT  News October 8, 2024 In the developing world, where there are unreliable energy sources of water, they rely increasingly on saline groundwater. Traditional renewable desalination technologies require sizable energy storage for sufficient water production, leading to increased cost, maintenance and complexity. An international team of researchers (USA – MIT, UK, Germany) demonstrated a simple control strategy using photovoltaic electrodialysis (PV-ED) to enable direct-drive optimally controlled desalination at high production rates. This control scheme was implemented on a fully autonomous, community-scale PV-ED prototype system and operated for 6 months in New Mexico on real brackish groundwater. The prototype fully harnessed 94% […]