World's First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway
The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.
Saltworks' New Desalination Technology Uses 70% Less Energy
Saltworks Technologies reported that they can produce 1 cubic meter of fresh water using just 1kWh compared to 3.7kWh per cubic meter achievable using reverse osmosis.
SEADOG Uses Waves' Own Power to Desalinate Sea Water
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.
Redbird Solar Water Purification System Can Process 14,400 gallons/day
The company Chemviron Midwest has developed the world's first solar-powered water purification system. The 25-feet long and 15-feet high water purification system, known as Redbird, can be completely enclosed in a shipping container, being easily transported in various parts of the world.
Potable Water Tank Mixer Eliminates Stagnation Utilizing Solar Power
The company SolarBee has created a potable-water tank mixer, designed to eliminate thermal stratification and stagnation in potable water.
Water Desalination Plants Powered by Renewable Energy
Due to the freshwater crisis from places like Dubai and Australia, inventors around the world have started looking for ways to convert seawater and make it potable. Most of these desalination plants require a huge amount of energy, being powered from non-renewable sources.
Solar-Powered System Extracts Potable Water from Air
For many people from urban areas the access to potable water is very low. To combat the water crisis, scientists had to design systems that can help provide clean drinking water from something that is omnipresent.
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.
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.
