Alexander Slocum hydroelectric-desalination integration concept

Used as an example of large-scale engineering-for-clean-water work. The ideal head height for hydroelectric (500–700 m, ~1000–1200 psi) matches the optimal pressure for reverse osmosis desalination — a coincidence Slocum proposes to exploit. Two draft papers (July 31, 2015) to be assigned reading.

Access to clean water. There's a couple of papers by Alexander Slocum, who's in mechanical engineering. He's going to come and lecture on October first. I told him we're teaching a class on What Is Engineering. He's co-listed — for me to list this as Course 2, Course 3, I have to have someone from mechanical engineering listed. So he's co-listed. He is one of the three brightest people I've ever known. Bob Langer's another. The other one was my roommate as a freshman. Alex Slocum wrote a book on precision engineering. It's a fairly thick book. It is the book on precision engineering. He was twenty-two when he wrote it. He's an interesting person. We can talk about his personality versus my personality and how we're both outcasts at MIT in different ways.