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But can it be scaled up even more? Like cubic meters per hour?
I just keep waiting for them to actually produce the small suitcase sized product. It sounds like a excellent option for me, as opposed to the $4-5k desalinators that are the options now.
but why "if"?
if they're making this research, why wouldn't they "scale up to the size of a small suitcase" and get rid of the "if"?
That's just how research works most of the time. The experimental setup required to build a working prototype and prove the initial hypothesis is always going to be larger and more complex than a mass market appliance. If that appliance ever gets built depends on a huge number of factors too. If the process scales as expected, how complex the device is to produce and if a company thinks that it can make money on it. The researchers, meanwhile, are probably more worried about their next grant funding.
My guess: They don't have the money to do so.