Norway's Statkraft opens first osmotic power plant
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The world's first power project that generates energy by mixing fresh water with sea water has opened in Norway.
The Norwegian renewable power company Statkraft has built a prototype osmotic power plant on the Oslo fiord.
It aims to produce enough electricity to light and heat a small town within five years by osmosis, the process that allows plants to absorb water.
At first it will produce a minuscule 4 kilowatts - enough to heat a large electric kettle.
But by 2015 the target is 25 megawatts - the same as a small wind farm.
These people need to research Nikola Tesla!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8377186.stm
The Norwegian renewable power company Statkraft has built a prototype osmotic power plant on the Oslo fiord.
It aims to produce enough electricity to light and heat a small town within five years by osmosis, the process that allows plants to absorb water.
At first it will produce a minuscule 4 kilowatts - enough to heat a large electric kettle.
But by 2015 the target is 25 megawatts - the same as a small wind farm.
These people need to research Nikola Tesla!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8377186.stm
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