It is proposed that the cell might be used in applications which require relatively low power consumption, for example sensors of various kinds or emergency signaling units, and that the devices might be used best in desert or warm coastal regions where the water is readily evaporated from the cell, thus maintaining its concentration gradient.
To address these questions, scientists from China and elsewhere are rushing around the oceans from ice-cold polar regions to the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, the warmest marine waters in the world.
For those who are looking to treat their mothers with affordable trips to traditionally hot regions such as Mexico and Florida, springtime also guarantees that they will benefit from warm weather without temperatures hitting their uncomfortable summer peaks.