saltwater Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:30:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Innovative New Lamp Runs For 3 Days On Saltwater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innovative-new-lamp-runs-3-days-saltwater-20170129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innovative-new-lamp-runs-3-days-saltwater-20170129/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:30:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=62595 Have a look at this little lamp! A very recently announced piece of emergency gear is sure to excite all of you preppers out there. This amazing new lamp from Hitachi Maxwell will run for three days on nothing but saltwater. Yep, just mix salt into water and you have light for around 80 hours. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innovative-new-lamp-runs-3-days-saltwater-20170129/feed/ 3 62595 Saltwater Graphene Generator Discovered https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-graphene-generator-discovered-20140417/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-graphene-generator-discovered-20140417/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:09:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47056 Scientists and researchers are still coming up with ways to use graphene, perhaps the greatest wünder-material in recent memory. Graphene, an atom-thick single-layer two-dimensional lattice of pure carbon, has been known for decades, yet only recently has been getting the attention it deserves. So far, research into graphene has yielded, at least, prototype technologies in […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-graphene-generator-discovered-20140417/feed/ 0 47056 Oil Companies May Shift from Recycled Water to Saltwater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oil-companies-may-shift-from-recycled-water-to-saltwater-20121129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oil-companies-may-shift-from-recycled-water-to-saltwater-20121129/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:49:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29005 Concerns on too much of water consumption during hydraulic fracturing have been pushing oil companies in recycling water, which in turn costs them much time and expenses. Fortunately, an alternative has been developed to use salt water instead. A drilling project already consumes 6 million gallons of drinkable water that are just disposed into underground […]

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