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New Israeli water technology at reduced energy cost |
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Written by the Jewish Tribune staff
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
JERUSALEM – Strategic Solutions Technology Group (SSTG) announced this week a new technology that would use the natural pressure of the deep sea to force water through a reverse osmosis filter into a freshwater holding tank, which would be tapped to supply consumer needs.
As the water crisis worsens due to global warming, the company has been working towards finding an environmentally friendly solution.
The two major ways of getting fresh water from seawater until now cost enormous amounts of energy. Strategic Solutions’ scientists reasoned a passive system using natural forces would be more efficient.
“In fact, we can make the whole desalination plant at sea, so we do not use up any valuable land at the coast,” according to the company. “Among the many advantages of this approach are: No coastal installation (especially with changing shorelines); no massive banks of osmosis pressure pumps and their maze of high-pressure leak-proof piping (expensive), and no danger of poisoning coastal sea life with brine outflows, as our system causes it to disperses naturally, never entering the filter, into the surrounding seawater at minimal concentration.” |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 December 2008 )
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