World Water Day: 60 Posts on Water & Cleantech
Today is World Water Day. We’ve written quite a number of posts on different ways water is connected to cleantech over the years. Rather than write a whole new post on one or two aspects of this, I’ve decided to do a compilation piece. The following are articles on CleanTechnica (and 3 from our sister site Planetsave) on some of the connections between cleantech and water. Let us know if you think we should be covering any of these topics more than we currently do.
Water as a Source of Energy
- New Microhydro Book is THE Microhydro Book
- New Low Energy Water Treatment Purifies, Desalinates and Makes Hydrogen, Too
- Wind Giant Iberdrola Births Underwater Tidal Turbine Market off Scotland’s Coast
- U.S. Flushes 12.5 Trillion Gallons of Energy Down the Drain Every Year
- Columbia University Researchers Develop Biofuel from Wastewater and Renewable Electricity
- InfoSpi Dives into Sewage-to-Biofuel Pool
- A Man, a Plan, a Canal…Hydrokinetic Power!
- Humpback Whales Inspire New Ocean Tidal Energy Turbine
- Metso to Help Automate Waveroller Demo in Portugal
- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Get First Ever Grid-Connected Wave Energy
- World’s Largest Wave Power Hub Goes Live
- World’s Largest Tidal Turbine, in Scotland
- Great Catch! Florida Atlantic University Snags Designation as Center for Clean Ocean Energy Research
- Next-Gen WaveRoller is “Not a Stupid Device”
- SEADOG Pump Harvests Clean, Renewable Wave Energy from Gulf of Mexico
- $3 Million Grant Will Push Green Jobs and Sustainable Hydrokinetic Power
- Massive Offshore Waves Sink Australia’s Oceanlinx Wavepower Pilot
- China’s 1st System of a Giant 10GW Marine Energy Project
- Another Wave Energy Project off the Coast of Scotland
- PG&E to Try Next Round of Wave Power Tests off Santa Barbara Coast
- Largest Working Hydro-Electric Wave Energy Device in the World Launched
- Wave Energy Looking for Breakthrough — Using Aerospace Design
- WaveRoller Uses Swinging Door for Underwater Wave Energy
- Underwater Kite Harnesses Ocean Energy
- Australia Gets Wave Power Inspired by Oil Rig
- Reliable Wave Power Ensures Secure Terrorism Protection
- Principle Power’s WindFloat to Perform First Inter-Energy Marriage
- Renew Blue Uses Ocean to Desalinate Itself
- $4.4 Million for WAVE Energy Project in Europe
- Irish Tube Compressor: Wave Energy Breakthrough or Pipe Dream?
- Wave Energy to Bring Power and Jobs to San Francisco
Other Clean Energy Sources’ Connections to Water Use & Water Pollution
- Water & Energy Facts (Blog Action Day on Water)
- ‘Fracking’ Violates Safe Drinking Water Act, Congressional Letter Charges
- Department of Justice to Water Polluter: Frack You!
- EPA Asks Natural Gas Drillers to Disclose Chemicals in Fracking Brine
- ExxonMobil Shareholders Demand Natural Gas Fracking Risk Assessment
- It’s About Fracking Time! U.S. EPA Lights a Fire Under Hydraulic Fracturing
- Poisoned Water : Tobacco Good, Biofuels Bad
- “Clean Coal” Looking More Like a 21st Century Dinosaur
- Nuclear Power Plant’s Water Rights Threaten Endangered Species
- French Uranium Leak Fouls Drinking Water and Two Rivers
Cleaning Water & Creating Water with Cleantech.. or something like that
- Cotton, Silver and Electricity can Kill Bacteria in Water
- New Low Energy Water Treatment Purifies, Desalinates and Makes Hydrogen, Too
- Toxic Metals in Your Water? No Problem, Have a Banana
- Igloo Turns Sewage into Cold Cash
- Researcher Recruits Seaweed to Clean Polluted Waters
- New Wastewater Treatment Plant Gives Visitors a Warm Welcome to the U.S.A.
- What a Twist! Earthworms Could Clean Up Toxic Waste
- Portable Solar Desalination Plant from MIT [VIDEO]
- Solar Power to Aid Flood Victims in Pakistan
- Pickles Picked for Azo Dye Pollution Solution
- Watering Deserts
- New Street-Smart Fire Hydrants Use High Tech Equipment to Conserve Water
- New “Iron Man” Super-Cleaner Fights Pollution without Toxic Byproducts
- Inventor Uses Biomimicry to Create Dew
- New Zealand Scientists Invent Steamin’ Hot Sewage Recycling Solution
- U.S. Navy Pumps More Money into High Efficiency Desalination Technology
- “Perfume Grass” Could Solve Problem of Antibiotics in Water Supply
- Mexico Adopts Sustainable Water Disinfection in Chiapas
- UCLA’s Nanotunnels Could Lower the Cost of Desalination
Photo via Lucy.Bold
