Now scientists at Norwegian renewable-energy company Statkraft aim to use osmosis to generate electric power.
Here at IT-Harvest Global Headquarters we have installed a new technology: reverse osmosis water filtering.
If families can afford it, she recommends a reverse osmosis filter, which will eliminate all impurities.
His company's solution is to incorporate super-hydrophilic (i.e. water-loving) nanoparticles into a reverse osmosis membrane.
Desalination removes salt by forcing water against a membrane to remove salts via reverse osmosis.
Leveraging the power of osmosis to generate electricity is a concept that has been discussed since the 1970s.
Ocean water pours through a series of pipes into rows of reverse osmosis filters which purify the water.
The concept of osmosis may mostly dredge up memories of high school biology.
Sugar, which makes up 95% of honey's solids, kills most bacteria by osmosis.
Mechanical systems like skimmers, centrifuges, and reverse osmosis machines can go a long way towards separating oil from water.
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Unlike other ocean technologies, generating power through osmosis doesn't involve operating in the harsh environment of, say, a deep sea operation.
"Everybody else is using reverse osmosis, and it uses too much electricity, " says Godshall, who has a background in fuel cells.
And like other alternative energy sources, power from osmosis isn't exactly cheap.
As far back as the late 1950s, Lou Mobley was arguing that the most crucial things we learn in business come through osmosis.
As every schoolchild should know, water moves from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a semipermeable membrane by a process called osmosis.
The entire planet comes together, whether as active participants, passive viewers or those of us, who, by osmosis, get caught up in the international frenzy.
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"So, the permeability of reverse osmosis membrane is key to improving capacity per unit cost--or on a capex basis, " said Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH2O.
Still, we use reverse osmosis purification to make it even better.
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And many schools have dramatically increased the national diversity of their student bodies in a bid to foster cultural awareness by a form of classroom osmosis.
Do you want the junior senator from New York whose national security experience was apparently limited to whatever knowledge she gained through osmosis as First Lady?
"Now I kid around with my siblings that it's through osmosis that I got to be an astronaut, " Hernandez, 47, told reporters in a recent briefing.
Aquafina is reverse-osmosis filtered, which means that it isn't much different from what comes out of your tap, with the exception it hasn't gone through municipal pipes.
The IBM Executive School became an exercise in educational mayhem and controlled chaos where the bulk of the learning came through the osmosis of peer to peer interaction.
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And that could be enough time to make power generated through osmosis a part of the patchwork of solutions that will serve energy to Europe, and eventually, the rest of the world.
Learning from competitors, clients, and ever changing challenges is the best way to stay ahead of a rapidly changing business environment, and no one benefits more from this osmosis than a salesman.
The device has advantages in removing problematic salts, said CEO Pat Curran, and can clean water at up to 75 percent less cost than systems such as reverse osmosis and brine concentrators.
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Although primarily produced for industrial use, the water is purified to drinking-quality using dual membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies, and marketed as bottled water for human consumption under the consumer brand NEWater.
For every two gallons of water the plant takes in, its reverse osmosis process will make one gallon of fresh water and send back to the ocean one gallon with twice the salinity level.
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