The excitement is over cheap but advanced technologies—such as “zapping shit in a pit” by using microwaves to vaporise excrement, generating some electric power too.
They then vaporise the mercury using a blowtorch, leaving gold behind.
The plants take salty or brackish water, and either warm it, vaporise it and separate off the salts and impurities, or pass it through filters.
They grow their bacteria on a stainless steel plate, and use a laser to vaporise their signalling molecules, feeding these into a mass spectrometer to catalogue the molecules present.
Because of the action of an outer cover and a sealing gasket in the inside, the change cycle can be extended largely by the water in the tray of the jar body, and the water is not easy to vaporise.