MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater. Where the river meets the sea, there is the potential to harness a significant amount of renewable energ... Read more
Tiny capsules with different substances on their surface could be useful in medicine and materials technology Hollow capsules that have a selectively permeable shell are promising candidates... Read more
The salinity difference between fresh water and salt water could be a source of renewable energy. However, power yields from existing techniques are not high enough to make them viable. A so... Read more
Computer simulations indicate graphene desalination membranes could vastly outperform existing reverse-osmosis systems The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. Unfortun... Read more
When it comes to desalinating salt water, two of the main options are thermal distillation and reverse osmosis. Thermal distillation involves boiling the water and collecting the resulting f... Read more