cakilmer's Journal: Argonne Hydrogen Catalyst Tools For Desalination

Argonne Labratories has just announced some advances in catalysts for fuel cells. They have developed some cool tools for catalytic research in doing so -- which I think might be applicable to desalination research as well. The idea would be to have a catalyst settle Na & Cl out of solution and skim off the fresh water. This would be an extremely cheap process. So cheap it would make it economically possible to turn the deserts green and double the size of the habitable planet. Does anyone understand the hydrogen tools above well enough to know whether they would be applicable to desalination catalysts.