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CANOE Money: Sectors - Mining giant BHP Billiton to build $3.5 billion water plant in Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile - BHP Billiton is seeking approval to build a $3.5 billion US water desalinization plant to service its Escondida copper mine in northern Chile, one of the world's top sources of the metal, a company spokesman said Saturday.
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90% Of Israeli Homes Have Solar Water Heaters | MetaEfficient
I recently noted that Hawaii has enacted a law that requires all new homes to install solar water heaters. Eventually, Hawaii may have as many water heaters as Israel, where 90% of homes have solar water heaters installed. When viewed from above, the Jerusalem often glitters with the shine of the thousands of solar heaters that adorn rooftops.
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Machine pulls drinking water from the air
this new so-called Klimatic Base 1 AirWater Machine does its share of inventive (but not entirely unique) water purifying nonetheless, with it promising to pull drinkable water out of the air. That's done, as you might have guessed, with the aid of an apparently standard dehumidifier, which gets paired with several filters and a UV light chamber that the company says will eliminate any bacterial content that might be in the water.
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Iron and copper: “More sustainable than modern materials”
This all comes from these chaps, Tuscan Foundry Products, who have done some ‘research’ that says, the whole life cost of copper and cast iron rainwater products is a third of that of PVC and Aluminium over a 100 year life cycle.
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R-Squared Energy Blog: How to Run a Car on Water
Oh, it can be done. There are no scientific laws that say you can't run a car on water. In fact, a Japanese company is the latest to claim they have pulled it off. See the video here:
Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan
However, what you can't do is run a car on water without energy inputs greater than you get from splitting the water.
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6,000 Gallons of Water to Light a LightBulb?! | EcoGeek
A recent study was published yesterday by researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute quantifying a bunch of different factors in water use in the energy industry. Some of the figures are staggering. Using America's current power mix, it takes up to 6,000 gallons of fresh water to keep a 60 watt light bulb lit for 12 hours a day for a year. Most of this energy is consumed as a cooling fluid at power plants.
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IEEE Spectrum: New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places
Next month an Australian-led coalition is expected to unveil a project to build experimental water-purification reactors in drought-plagued northeastern Australia.
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The Oil Drum | The needs and use of water for power, industrial plants and people
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Mechanical 'fish' could tap turbulence for energy - energy-fuels - 16 October 2007 - New Scientist Environment
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Solar Hot Water Set To Go Mainstream with California's AB 1470
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