http://www.newventuresbc.com/2008/09/energy-conservation-entrepreneurs-take-home-top-prizes/ News about the New Ventures BC competition and seminar series Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newventuresbc.com/2008/09/energy-conservation-entrepreneurs-take-home-top-prizes/comment-page-1/#comment-32540 2008 Winner Saltworks covered by the Economist | New Ventures BC Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.newventuresbc.com/blog/?p=193#comment-32540 [...] 2008 New Ventures BC Winner Saltworks Technologies is the subject of an article in the Economist this week  Cheaper desalination: Current Thinking. The online and offline piece takes a closer look at Saltworks‘ fresh way to take the salt out of seawater. THERE is a lot of water on Earth, but more than 97% of it is salty and over half of the remainder is frozen at the poles or in glaciers. Meanwhile, around a fifth of the world’s population suffers from a shortage of drinking water and that fraction is expected to grow. One answer is desalination—but it is an expensive answer because it requires a lot of energy. Now, though, a pair of Canadian engineers have come up with an ingenious way of using the heat of the sun to drive the process. Such heat, in many places that have a shortage of fresh water, is one thing that is in abundant supply. [...] [...] 2008 New Ventures BC Winner Saltworks Technologies is the subject of an article in the Economist this week  Cheaper desalination: Current Thinking. The online and offline piece takes a closer look at Saltworks‘ fresh way to take the salt out of seawater. THERE is a lot of water on Earth, but more than 97% of it is salty and over half of the remainder is frozen at the poles or in glaciers. Meanwhile, around a fifth of the world’s population suffers from a shortage of drinking water and that fraction is expected to grow. One answer is desalination—but it is an expensive answer because it requires a lot of energy. Now, though, a pair of Canadian engineers have come up with an ingenious way of using the heat of the sun to drive the process. Such heat, in many places that have a shortage of fresh water, is one thing that is in abundant supply. [...]

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