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7 Reasons Why New Cell-Inspired Membrane Revolutionizes Water Treatment and Metal Recovery

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:54:48 +0000

Gecko’s feet for adhesion, lotus leaf for hydrophobicity, moth’s eyes for reduction of reflectivity in solar cells, and electric eels for power generation – these are just a few examples of how we can study nature and apply them in improving current technologies. This technique is called biomimicry. Researchers in Australia, led by Benny Freeman, […]

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New High-Performance Water Desalination Technique Uses Nanoporous Graphene

Maria Reyes — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:03:24 +0000

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 desalination of seawater. The looming water crisis drives the search for efficient, cheap and sustainable desalination techniques to recover potable water from seawater. In a new study published in Nano Letters, […]

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Water Desalination Made Cheaper With Oasys Water's New Technology

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:55:04 +0000

So far, there's been plenty of water in the oceans and seas, but that's salty and undrinkable. Oasys Water, a company specialized in desalination, comes with a solution to the scarcity of water in some regions and also cuts the costs for producing it.

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MIT's New Water Desalination System Powered by Solar Energy

Mike Sandru — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:15:16 +0000

A group of researchers from MIT's Field and Space Robotics Laboratory (FSRL) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering found a new way to combat the lack of potable water from disaster zones and remote regions.

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Saltworks' New Desalination Technology Uses 70% Less Energy

Cristi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:38:23 +0000

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.

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Solar Cube: Saving Lives With Solar and Wind Power

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:53:18 +0000

What can you buy for $38,000? Two second-hand Priuses? No. A smaller airplane? Neither. I'll tell you what you can have for that money: a solar powered desalination device.

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