Finalist – Saltworks Technologies
Vancouver-based Saltworks Technologies Inc. is a green technology company that has developed a patent-pending solar process for desalination that offers significant electrical energy savings. The desalination market is estimated to grow by $56 billion over the next seven years and energy efficiency remains its greatest challenge.
Water is desalinated in order to be converted to fresh water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. Sometimes the process produces table salt as a by-product. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on developing cost-effective ways of providing fresh water for human use in regions where the availability of water is limited. Saltworks Technologies patent-pending solar process aims to solve that problem.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:11 am
As an annual sponsor of the New Ventures BC Competition, Webnames.ca is always amazed at the innovation demonstrated by each year’s finalists and winners. This year’s group has certainly not disppointed. To see the calibre of companies in this competition coming from our province, it makes me proud to be a British Columbian. Congratulations to Saltworks Technologies and all the winners and finalists!