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Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Solar desalination/Turning waste water into revenue
Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Many underdeveloped parts of the world are surrounded by water but in order for the people who live there to survive, it has to be trucked in over great distances. Desalination has not been feasible until now, thanks to an innovative way to involve solar power. Jose Alfaro’s with the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability and has been testing this out in Mexico.
Waste water doesn’t need to be seen as ‘waste’ but rather as a way to make money. There are 16 thousand wastewater plants in the US and Dr. Kelvin Okamoto, who heads up Gen3Bio transforms algae from waste water into revenue.
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