The suitcase-sized device, weighing less than ten kilograms, requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger and can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel. It automatically generates drinking water that exceeds World Health Organization quality standards. The technology is packaged into a user-friendly device that runs with the push of a button.
https://greekreporter.com/2023/07/21/mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button/
There have been other groups who re-invented the dehumidifier, claimed that it could solve the world's water shortage problems, and sought crowdfunding to market it. They were at best dumb projects, at worst outright scams. Is this any better?
@JorgeStolfi @AAronL1968
MIT and the US Army DEVCOM are not exactly notorious scam artists.
@pieist @AAronL1968
Not a scam while it is just a student project at MIT. I may be if it becomes a crowfund project...
That said, MIT includes the MIT Media Lab which hosts a cryptocurrency project. (And google "Joi Ito" "Jeff Epstein" together.) Silvio Micali, a CS prof at MIT, created his own cryptocurrency.
So I don't think that MIT is immune to scams itself...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqljdMwRyk