WaterFX Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:39:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 WaterFX’s New Desalination Process Uses Concentrated Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waterfx-desalination-solar-power-20140228/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waterfx-desalination-solar-power-20140228/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:39:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46231 In many parts of the world, including California, South Australia, Qatar, among others, desalination of sea water is a practice, without which the intensity of drought and lack of drinking water would have had an even more devastating impact than what they have now. However, the huge amount of energy that is consumed by desalination […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waterfx-desalination-solar-power-20140228/feed/ 1 46231 WaterFX Solar-Power Water Purification Plant Goes Live This Year https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waterfx-solar-power-water-purification-plant-goes-live-year-20140218/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waterfx-solar-power-water-purification-plant-goes-live-year-20140218/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:13:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46004 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 There are billions of gallons of water in the Central Valley, actually, but there’s a problem. The water is contaminated with toxic levels of salt, selenium, and other heavy metals that […]

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