Desalinated Seawater Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Affordable Wood Pulp Membrane Turns Seawater into Fresh Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wood-pulp-turns-seawater-freshwater-20151021/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wood-pulp-turns-seawater-freshwater-20151021/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:59:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57037 Scientists developed a new cheap and efficient method to turn seawater into fresh water using cheap fiber from wood pulp. Fresh water scarcity is becoming a huge problem for numerous communities around the world. With population and temperatures increasing continuously, more and more fresh water sources dry out or become exhausted, posing a huge threat […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wood-pulp-turns-seawater-freshwater-20151021/feed/ 0 57037 World Food Crisis Solved By Desert Farming? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-food-crisis-solved-by-desert-farming-20121130/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-food-crisis-solved-by-desert-farming-20121130/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:29:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29078 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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