Portable Desalination System Designed by MIT Could Save Lives
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.
NASA Forward Osmosis Bag Transforms Urine Into Drinking Water
If you ever saw Bear Grylls and his gross pee-drinking desert adventure, then you know you shouldn't drink that liquid (mostly when it's hot like soup and stinks like nothing else on Earth). NASA has nevertheless discovered a solution to this "problem" by inventing a bag that filters anything, from pee to dirty water and transforms it into a drinkable liquid.
Freshwater and Electricity Through Osmosis
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.
WaterFX Solar-Power Water Purification Plant Goes Live This Year
Typical water purification is an expensive and complicated process, but a new solar-powered version could produce clean water for crops in California's Central Valley...
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.
New High-Performance Water Desalination Technique Uses Nanoporous Graphene
About 97 percent of the earth’s water is found in seas and oceans, yet only a fraction of the world’s potable water comes from...
Watly, Solar-Powered Computer that Provides Clean Water, Electricity and Internet
Watly is the world's largest solar-powered computer, which provides clean drinking water, green solar power and internet connectivity.
In many parts of the world, access...
Bacteria that feed on pollutants to produce electricity
Scientists of the Washington State University fished multiple communities of extremophile bacteria from the alkaline hot springs of the Heart Lake Geyser Basin area,...
Cleaning Contaminated Water Using Photocatalysts
Solar Water Disinfection is a well-known technique for cleaning contaminated water with ultraviolet rays. Although this technique has been investigated by many, Deepika Kurup...
New Microbubble Production Making Biofuels and Wastewater Treatment More Efficient
I didn't really actively realize that current biofuel production technologies imply the usage of fossil fuels at certain moments of the production process. This fact reduces the biofuels' credibility as a cleaner source of energy and increases their carbon footprint.
