Sentences with phrase «makes desalination»

Peter Lang: Lower cost electricity makes desalination cheaper and pumping cheaper.

Lower cost electricity makes desalination cheaper and pumping cheaper.

But for only a small fraction of the $ 2.8 billion a year the U.S. gives Israel in military and economic aid it could provide the subsidies that would make desalination plants economical.

They considered including using the waste heat for desalination, but the nuclear plants would need a major redesign to make the desalination plants commercially viable.

Investments in technology like this and other improvements to make desalination a financially viable and environmentally responsible technology is going to get big — in fact, the industry is set to see about» > $ 878 billion in investments over the next few years.

Not exact matches

Recent progress in desalination technology makes such a move feasible.

A $ 25 million desalination plant would provide enough water to make about 3,000 acres of Palestinian land bloom.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

Marriage and desalination are important issues to our voters and we look forward to seeing where our opponents stand on them so the voters can make an informed decision.»

«You're going to have to make big hard decisions like, «I'm going to do what they did in the capital of the Maldives,» which was make a huge sea wall and build huge desalination facilities.

Nenoff had worked with hydrotalcite, a layered material made of aluminum hydroxide, since the early 2000s when she was studying methods for low cost desalination, and thought the material could be an effective filter for silica.

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

Exploiting water's weird properties with innovative desalination technology could make sure there's enough to go around, says physicist Marcia Barbosa

This thought made him even more interested in learning about the latest methods of desalination, the subject of «Hydrates, Hydrates Everywhere» (page 62).

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Eugene Mamontov's background in both basic and applied science has made him a valued partner for scientists who come to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in search of a better understanding of the water dynamics in their research — projects as diverse as studying plant cellulose or analyzing nanostructured membranes for desalination.

When you hear about desalination, you think about maybe if you are stranded and there is no other source of drinking water available, you make do with desalinizing the salt water.

Other students made their own paint, lip gloss, and markers, explored desalination, built circuits, crystal radios, bridges, and solar - powered robotic creatures, and experimented with the perfect carbonated soda recipe.

What it means is that even in a year where we don't get enough rain than what we normally get, that difference can be made up from desalination.

The area's new airport itself is made up of 80 percent recycled material and hosts its own desalination system for providing water to the terminals.

Not only is it surrounded by mature leafy trees it has a desalination plant making fresh drinkable water and all the hot water is solar powered.

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Does he mean «Red Ken», who made it impossible for anyone but the rich to use London's roads, and who refused to allow a new desalination plant to provide London with water, on the basis that it mightemmit CO2, and that people should use less water instead?

Energy costs make up arounda third of total operating costs for a typical desalination plant.

Australian activists convinced the government that global warming made droughts permanent, and desalination plants were built at great cost.

Gubernatorial candidates make a host of promises: pipelines from the Great Lakes; water desalination plants; return to public ownership of previously privatized water systems; bringing in experts from the US West, formation of water resources planning councils, and more.