14 Year-Old Invents Cheap Solar Powered Water Purification System
As teenagers, most of us cared more about say, a humiliating acne outbreak or which classmate we’d ask to homecoming, rather than the difficulties...
Pluvia Converts Rainwater to Electricity, Purifies It
Pluvia is made of a microturbine, 12-volt rechargeable batteries, generator, pipe, pump, charcoal filter and a storage tank.
Rain has received quite a bit of attention...
New Mold Technique Puts BioSand Water Filter Within Reach of Everyone
BioSand water filtration represents one of the most promising technologies we have when it comes to low cost water filtration. A new mold technique...
Self-Contained Portable System Purifies and Transports Water Using Solar Panels
The availability of clean drinking water in many areas around the world is limited. Engineers and scientists are continuously searching for solutions to this...
Graphene Oxide Offers New Hope for Water Decontamination
Water is the universal solvent on the planet, and without it, minerals and nutrients can't be transported. Life would cease to exist. This property...
Prickly Pear Cactus Mucilage Removes Bacteria and Dirt from Water, Acting as Purifier
Norma Alcantar and her colleagues extracted the cactus's mucilage - the thick gum that the plant uses to store water, and mixed it with water to which they had added dirt (sediments and bacteria - Bacillus cereus).
MIT’s New Solar-Powered Desalination Tech Wins USAID Award
A new solar-powered desalination technology called “photovoltaic-powered electrodialysis reversal system”, which had been developed by the MIT, has won the top $140,000 Desal prize...
Cleantech`s Water Purifier Using Basic Physics Principle
Water purification is not a myth anymore. It can become the reality we've always dreamed of and this with low costs.
Google Uses Recycled Wastewater to Cool Douglas County Data Center
A new Google initiative wants to recycle wastewater to cool its hot Douglas County, Georgia data center. By collaborating with the local water authority...
Lima, Perú – Freshwater From a Billboard, University of Engineering and Technology
If there's one thing that mars a skyline worse than a building in front of your favorite mountaintop, it's probably a billboard.
Of course, a...
