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Electricity From Salty Water
BuzzSkyline writes "It's possible to produce energy by simply mixing fresh and salty water. Although chemists and physicists have long known about the untapped energy available where fresh water rivers pour into salty oceans — it's equivalent to 'each river in the world ending at its mouth in a waterfall 225 meters [739 feet] high' — the technology for exploiting the effect has been lacking. An Italian physicist seems to have solved the problem with the experimental demonstration of a 'salination cell' that creates power given nothing more than input sources of salty and fresh water. The researcher believes that this renewable, environmentally friendly energy source could be deployed in coastal areas and could provide another addition to the green-tech roster. A paper describing the technology is due to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters."
He's thinking in terms of the southwestern United States. There are plenty of other areas in the US that have more than enough fresh water. People from the southwest tend to be pretty self-centered when it comes to regional issues, and assume everybody has the same problems. The rest of us tend to ignore them.
I guess you don't know about estuaries and their intimate relation with water use, wildlife habitat, etc. I would speculate that you are precisely 17 years old, the age at which a person knows and understands absolutely everything in the world.
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