Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?
www.theguardian.com
The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city

It’s not -a lot- of electricity … a couple of thousand kWh per day. It’s also used to de-salinate ocean water … of which there’s plenty.

  • happydoors@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Isn’t efficiency just getting closer and closer to a perpetual machine? Using science and the physics to the absolute limit!