An innovative device will help to produce large amounts of cheap energy.
Today, most of our supply of electricity is generated by far the most safe from the point of view of ecology of plants. And, despite successes in the use of solar energy, the commissioning of new technologies in the production of electricity remains time-consuming and resource-intensive process.
But soon all about to change thanks to a new method of generating electricity from salt water. The technology is the use of each school of the familiar process of osmosis. The point is simple: the power plant has two tanks — one saltwater and the other with clean water. In the tank with clean water positioned the turbine, which is driven by the movement of water.
Containers connected by a tube with a semipermeable membrane. Next comes physics: due to osmosis, the salt concentration in the two vessels should be the same. It makes the molecules of the salt to run from the tank with salt water through a membrane in a container of clean water. Fluctuations of water powered turbine that generates electricity.
There’s just one problem: this process generate electricity have long been known and with it the amount of energy produced is very small. But a group of researchers from Switzerland and the USA found a way to increase the output energy several times.Osmosis in action. The alignment of the concentration of molecules in blood vessels In the invention of scientists the main component that allows to increase energy is a new type of membrane. Salty and pure water are in one vessel, separated by an ultrathin semipermeable membrane.
The assurances of researchers, the membrane thickness is less than one millimeter, Plus technology, is that these “gate” for ions may be very much in the same membrane and, as said by the developers, the membrane area of 1 square meter can generate up to 1000 kilowatts of energy, enough to provide electricity to about 600 homes.
