The original plans for the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California, for example, which sits on 2.4 hectares of land, called for well more than 200,000 megawatt hours of electricity a ...

Sewerage and water board officials acknowledged that salt water could increase lead contamination but said it’s too early to predict the severity. Kanter said very frequent testing will be required.

A three-story-tall gate creaks open, and reveals a warehouse filled to the brim with brown crystals. It’s a mountain of rock salt. “We filled this shed this past week,” says T.J. Shea ...

When salt water flows over the electrodes, they capture ... The authors call their device a "mixing entropy battery," and show some examples that perform at about 75 percent of the theoretical ...

Researchers have developed a sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic ...

Currently, salt is removed from water using expensive and power-hungry desalination plants, of which there are 18,000 in 150 countries. This essentially boils salt water, with the steam then being ...

Salt in water sources becoming worrisome in D.C. region, ... “It’s not that the sodium levels, for example, that are currently in the reservoir are particularly problematic,” Grant said.

Alternatives to salt include a bunch of different brines (salty de-icing sludge) that agencies have been tinkering with for years in an effort to reduce salt pollution. For example, potassium ...