pickupman66
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did any of you guys see this? I caught it a few days ago and just remembered it.
Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water | Reuters
seems they have a new tech that is replacing RO for desalinization. Could this also be used in our RO processes for making the water we use for our tanks? I would think it might. could also be super cheap as well. Hope it comes to fruition.
(Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity has become a global security issue.
The process, officials and engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp say, would enable filter manufacturers to produce thin carbon membranes with regular holes about a nanometer in size that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough to block the molecules of salt in seawater. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
Because the sheets of pure carbon known as graphene are so thin - just one atom in thickness - it takes much less energy to push the seawater through the filter with the force required to separate the salt from the water, they said.
Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water | Reuters
seems they have a new tech that is replacing RO for desalinization. Could this also be used in our RO processes for making the water we use for our tanks? I would think it might. could also be super cheap as well. Hope it comes to fruition.
(Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity has become a global security issue.
The process, officials and engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp say, would enable filter manufacturers to produce thin carbon membranes with regular holes about a nanometer in size that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough to block the molecules of salt in seawater. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
Because the sheets of pure carbon known as graphene are so thin - just one atom in thickness - it takes much less energy to push the seawater through the filter with the force required to separate the salt from the water, they said.
