Desalination adoption outpaces the development of effective strategies for managing the concentrated brine streams it produces. Electrochemical water-salt splitting to generate useful chemicals is an ideal method to valorize wastewater from desalination and incentivize its collection.
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The Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a $2.5 million prize competition called Waves to Water to spur innovation in wave energy-powered desalination systems. It is the first prize under the Water Security Grand Challenge, a White House-initiated, DOE-led framework to advance transformational technology and innovation to meet the global need for
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