To desalinate salt water, the technology passes it between two oppositely charged super capacitors, which attract charged ions.

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Buy water utilities, companies that serve water utilities, and companies that desalinate water.

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Given the looming crisis of water scarcity, we badly need more efficient and less costly methods to desalinate ocean water.

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Use the electricity generated to desalinate and de-ionize sea water. 3.

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The technology came out of funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a super capacitor to desalinate ocean water into drinking water for the troops.

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That's a big improvement from the 1970s, when Sidney Loeb at the University of California, Los Angeles, was working on a process to desalinate water and came up with the idea of using osmosis to generate power.

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