Exploring Cleaner Alternative Energy Sources for hot Water [Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), April 2022]

Title: 

Exploring Cleaner Alternative Energy Sources for hot Water  

 

Published: 

Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 1 April 2022 https://www.nust.na/?q=news/exploring-cleaner-alternative-energy-sources-hot-water-preparation   

 

From the news article: 

NUST’s Namibia Energy Institute (NEI), recently conducted two Information Sharing Workshops for residential buildings, hotels, and lodges to explore the feasibility of using solar thermal energy for hot water preparation in Windhoek and Swakopmund. This initiative forms part of the framework of Southern African Solar Thermal Training and Demonstration Initiative (SOLTRAIN) project.

 

This $4 Desalination System Can Meet a Family’s Daily Water Needs [SingularityHub, February 2022]

Title:

This $4 Desalination System Can Meet a Family’s Daily Water Needs

 

Author:

Vanessa Bates Ramirez

 

Published:

SingularityHub, 16 February 2022

https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/16/this-simple-water-desalination-system-from-mit-can-be-made-for-just-4/

 

From the article:

There aren’t many ways to create more water, and desalination has only become a possible solution due to lack of better options. Besides requiring a lot of energy, large-scale desalination is expensive, complex, and comes with salty byproducts that are hard to dispose of.  

 

A new desalination method described this week in Nature Communications won’t solve all these problems, but it’s a good start, especially for small-scale water purification. A team of researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MIT built a relatively simple, low-cost desalination system they believe could be implemented in its current form for families and communities, and developed into a commercial device within a few years.