Estuary Power? Mixing Salt and Fresh Water = Clean Electricity

Two electrodes, stacked one on top of the other. Image credit: Doriano Brogioli.

Now That’s a Clever Source of Power!

When you mix fresh water with salt water, a reaction happens so that a new salinity equilibrium can be reached. This dissipates energy that could be harnessed and turned into clean electricity using a new technique developed by Doriano Brogioli of the University of Milan Bicocca in Monza, Italy. Are we about to enter the era of “estuary power”?

• 
  Image credit: Sami Grover (the tomato!), and The Seedbank (with help from CBay on photoshop).
  I was in a local gardening shop the other day that specializes in hydroponics…
• 
  Image credit: Audubon NC
  I’ve never really understood the attraction of “off roading” – in fact, until I started brewing biodiesel with some Off Road Vehicle (ORV) enthusiasts, I didn’t even really know what it was…
• 
  Image credit: Quite Contrary Farm
  From baseball to ballet to drama, I’m always amazed (and somewhat bewildered!) at the array of after-school activities on offer for the modern child…
• 
  Image credit:USA Today, Iraq lashed by sandstorms and battling drought
  Certainly the headline is a bit of hyperbole; but, the underlying point should not be lost. The human impact of climate change…
• 
  Image credit: Solar Electric Vehicle Company
  Go to almost any theme park, beach resort, or zoo and you’ll see ‘people movers’ trundling around moving people from one place to another – often little faster than they could walk…

• The 10:10 Campaign: Is the Whole of Britain Cutting Its Carbon?!
• Marijuana as a Gateway… to Farming?
• Off Road Vehicles vs Wildlife: Cape Hatteras Under Threat
• Quite Contrary After School Farm: Car-Free Agricultural Fun
• Portions Of Iraq Drying Up Completely
• A Video About Water That’ll Turn On Your Tear Ducts
• Solar-Electric People Movers: Greening the Tourist Trail
• J. Carl Ganter: Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority; Survey finds fresh water pollution, scarcity drive public concern worldwide
• Boulder’s Gigantic Wind Turbines: Are Those People!?
• Part-Time Diaper Free: Elimination Communication for the Rest of Us

Comments

No comments yet.

Leave a comment