Solar Panel Designed For Desalination

It looks like a solar panel and it is - of sorts; but instead of using solar power to generate electricity, the Carocell from Australian company F Cubed purifies and desalinates water.

Australia is not short on water - just the right type of water poses a problem. There are vast reserves of water under the landscape, laying on the surface and surrounding our island nation. But like the oceans that surround us, much of the water inland is brackish or otherwise contaminated and unusable for industrial, crops and livestock purposes, let alone human consumption. Major pipelines are sometimes built to supply potable water to these areas, disturbing the local environment; or water is trucked in - an expensive and emissions intensive exercise.

Source: Renewable Energy News