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Ottawa Student Could Make Water Desalination 600-700% More Efficient
Water For AllThe Economist recently published a very good primer on water desalination. It contains some cautious prediction about future growth of thermal and membrane desalination plants, but all of that could change if Mohammed Rasool Qtaisha, a chemical engineering PhD student at the University Ottawa, has his way. He founded Water for All with the goal of turning seawater into drinking water on a large scale, and it seems like he has a breakthrough. We can't be 100% sure yet because his technology is secret and patent-pending, but he claims that his new membrane te...
Source: TreeHugger