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The World's First Osmotic Power Plant

Posted by timothy on from the it-oozes-power-into-the-bucket dept.

ElectricSteve writes "Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway officially opened the world's first osmotic power plant prototype on November 24. The prototype has a limited production capacity and will be used primarily for testing and data validation, leading to the construction of a commercial power plant in a few years time. Statkraft claims that the technology has the global potential to generate clean, renewable energy equivalent to China's total electricity consumption in 2002 or half of the EU's total power production" What's osmotic power? Wikipedia to the rescue!

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  1. Re:Nuclear power plants are offtopic, but here goe by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Informative
    safey: nuclear power stations have an outstanding saftey record. CHECK.http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf06.html

    expense: nuclear power costs very little. CHECK. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html

    operating life: nuclear power stations have a long life span, plants built in the 60's are still going. CHECK. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf08.html

    ouput: do i even need to provide a reference on this one? nuclear power runs whole nations such as france.

    it would seem good sir, that you are the one spreading bullshit. I call you out on your anti nuke nonsense, you know nothing about the subject past what greenpeace has shoved down your throat.

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  2. Re:Nuclear power plants are offtopic, but here goe by Lorens · · Score: 5, Informative

    ouput: do i even need to provide a reference on this one? nuclear power runs whole nations such as france.

    Last time I looked France even had a 40+ year old tidal hydro power station near Le Havre as well as a wide variety of other power plants. Try harder.

    79% of electricity produced in France is produced in nuclear reactors.

    http://www.planete-energies.com/contenu/nucleaire/production-consommation.html

    Another source says that out of all energy consumed in France (including fuel for cars and such), 44% is of nuclear origin.

    Maybe it is not correct to say that nuclear power runs the whole nation, but the nation sure wouldn't run without it.

  3. Not the first osmotic power plant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's merely the first with a proper marketing scheme... :p

    Since 2005 a 50kW test installation has been working in Harlingen, the Netherlands. This is a POS (pressure retarded osmosis) installation just like the Norwegian one. A 10kW RED installation has been installed not 20km away in the Afsluitdijk barrier dam.

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TGK-4MDGP8H-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1111993059&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a85c6a42fb58101cbda1cb384456dd18