Posts Tagged desalination

Researchers Create Fresh Water from Geothermal Energy

Posted by Leigh Kim in Geothermal Power on December 20, 2012

One of the key challenges in our brave new world is creating a sustainable water supply for the ever growing global population – a population that has surpassed 7 billion and keeps expanding. Experts recognize this issue must be met head on, paying particular attention to comprehensive water management and responsible water usage. Diminishing resources [...]


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World Food Crisis Solved By Desert Farming?

Posted by Leigh Kim in Solar Power on November 30, 2012

Dreamed up and designed by a 62 year old London theater lighting engineer and led by a 33 year old German former Goldman Sachs banker, Sundrop Farms in Port Augusta Australia is growing food in the desert. Sundrop Farms is beyond the experimental stage and has successfully produced agriculture in an environment usually hostile to growing much [...]


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Portable Desalination System Designed by MIT Could Save Lives

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Water Purifiers on March 26, 2010

Water desalination is very important in areas where earthquakes, tsunamis or other natural catastrophes occurred. Usually, these areas are located near the sea or the ocean, and desalinizing the water could definitely save lives.


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SEADOG Uses Waves' Own Power to Desalinate Sea Water

Posted by Cristi in Water Purifiers, Wave power on October 21, 2009

A company called Renew Blue, Inc. will use wave power to run a desalination plant in Freeport, Texas. The resulted water will be finally put into corn-based biodegradable plastic bottles. The SEADOG power system is made from a buoy which puts in motion a piston mechanism that rotates a water wheel to generate electricity.


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Freshwater and Electricity Through Osmosis

Posted by Cristi in Energy news, Water Purifiers on January 15, 2009

Robert McGinnis, Yale doctoral student and Menachem Elimelech, Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, have developed systems that can harness the power of osmosis to transform non-potable water sources like seawater to freshwater and generate in the same time electricity.


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Low Energy Water Desalination Through Nanotechnology

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green News on June 9, 2008

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found out a greener way to desalinize sea water. It uses carbon nanotubes which have pores that are 100,000 times smaller than a human hair, and were able to determine the rejection mechanism within the pores.


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