SCIENTISTS WORK HARD TO IMPRIVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF OSMOSIS POWER, SEEKING COMMERCIALLY SCALABLE SYSTEMS
March 2nd, 2020
In principle, the technology of osmotic power, known widely as ‘blue energy’, has a lot going for it: unlike wind or sunlight, its electricity generating technique of mixing freshwater and saltwater at the mouths of estuaries is constant, with electrically charged salt ions moving from salty seawater to fresh river water.
Cost-effective energy at scale by installing semi-permeable membranes in these sites – found around the world, of course - is the prize, but a commercially and technically successful system has so far proved elusive. The Norwegian company ...
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