{"id":27704,"date":"2017-04-13T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=27704"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:52:18","slug":"graphene-to-desalinate-seawater-or-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/04\/graphene-to-desalinate-seawater-or-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphene to Desalinate Seawater, or Maybe Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently science writers at various news outlets have been gushing over an announcement that scientists have been able to use graphene to remove the salt from seawater. CNBC lead with the exuberant headline, \u201cCarbon-based filter which turns seawater into drinking water could help millions.\u201d Science Alert\u2019s headline was \u201cScientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water \u2014 Holy crap.\u201d\u00a0 While the enthusiasm is evident, what is not so clear is whether there is anything here to get so excited about. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsaltblog.com\/2017\/04\/graphene-desalinate-seawater-maybe-not\/#more-46215\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsaltblog.com\/2017\/04\/graphene-desalinate-seawater-maybe-not\/#more-46215\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently science writers at various news outlets have been gushing over an announcement that scientists have been able to use graphene to remove the salt from seawater. CNBC lead with the exuberant headline, \u201cCarbon-based filter which turns seawater into drinking water could help millions.\u201d Science Alert\u2019s headline was \u201cScientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water \u2014 Holy crap.\u201d\u00a0 While the enthusiasm is evident, what is not so clear is whether there is anything here to get so excited about. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27706,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions\/27706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}