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Making Desalination Efficient with MIT Professor John Lienhard
More than a billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. Sea water is one possible solution. But current methods of desalination are expensive, energy intensive, and require infrastructure not usually available in areas most in need of it.
On Feb. 2, 2012, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering John Lienhard offered his thoughts on how to make desalination efficient and answered questions from the worldwide MIT alumni community. Watch the video then continue the discussion online by posting in the comments on the Slice of MIT blog.
About John Lienhard
Photo: Len Rubenstein.
John Lienhard P'15 is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT as well as the director of the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
He earned his BS and MS in chemical, nuclear, and thermal engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in fluid dynamics from the University of California, San Diego.
His research interests include desalination, water supply, energy, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, convective transport, extremely high heat fluxes, and electronics thermal management.
Learn more in this Spectrum article—Drinkable Water for All.
