Clayton, Mary E.; Stillwell, Ashlynn S.; Webber, Michael E. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 758-778
, some municipalities have considered desalination of saline water as a freshwater supply. Unfortunately, desalination … requires a sizeable energy investment. However, renewable energy technologies can be paired with desalination to mitigate … concern over the environmental impacts of increased energy use. At the same time, desalination can be operated in an …