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Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: thedoc on 04/03/2012 19:04:35

Title: Can combining tech give us better waste water treatment?
Post by: thedoc on 04/03/2012 19:04:35

By combining two existing technologies, researchers in America have devised a novel way to generate electricity from waste water – and all it took was a pinch of the right salt...

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Title: Re: Can combining tech give us better waste water treatment?
Post by: rafaelos on 24/03/2012 22:25:18

I think so, and hopefully that will be the case.

It's a bit off-topic, but later during the record, in the second interview the lady says that we won't run out of NOx in the near future, rather, that there are other other minerals that are more scarce.

Do you have any idea of which ones these are?
rare earth minerals maybe (dysprosium, terbium, lutetium ...
which have been identified by the US Dept of Energy as vital for the future of the Clean Technologies


thanks
cheers
rafa