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So, Thermal Desalination is the Future Now? (w. Willian Janssen - Desolenator)
Thermal desalination lost the water industry to reverse osmosis on one number: boiling seawater takes about ten times more energy than pushing it through a membrane. So why is one of the 20 teams left in the XPRIZE Water Scarcity competition still betting on heat? Desolenator is a Dutch water tech company that desalinates with heat instead of pressure, running on solar energy and industrial waste heat rather than grid electricity. Its hybrid panel harvests electricity and thermal energy from the same sunlight, recovers the latent heat of its own steam, and can run to...
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You're listening to Don't Waste Water. If someone comes and says he wants to see the water, where's the proof? And I had it in my feet, sir.
Hello, Vouvour and welcome to the Don't Waste Water podcast. We need good ideas and we'll do the rest later. I'm your host Antoine Valtter and in today's episode, I'm delighted to welcome William Jansen as my guest.
Consultants are ridiculously conservative. They will never introduce innovation if the customer doesn't ask for it, Because it's 100% risk. Where's the upside for them?
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