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water from salt:ge’s global challenge to fi nd renewable
energy solutions for desalination
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Water availability and security is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today
The sea provides an abundance of water, but to be useable, it must be desalinated
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desalination by the numbers
Desalination plants worldwide:
15,988
Total global capacity of all desalination plants worldwide: 66.5 millioncubic meters/day
Source: International Desalination Association
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The Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant in Algeria
Capacity:
200,000cubic meters of water
Provides2 million residentsof Algiers with drinkable water.
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The Hamma Seawater Desalination plant uses seawater reverse osmosis… see how it works in this video
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300 million peoplebenefit daily from desalination
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Global production of desalinated water uses approximately 75.2 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power nearly 7 million homes
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GE ecomagination and Wa’ed, Saudi Aramco’s entrepreneurship center, have launched a global open innovation challenge to find more sustainable solutions for seawater desalination
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New solutions need to reduce cost and increase efficiency by using…
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
ADVANCED MATERIALS
BETTER PROCESSES
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Entries are being immediately accepted at: www.ninesights.com/community/ecomagination
Entry deadline: July 16, 2014
Winners announced: September 2014
The most innovative solutions will be selected by a panel of GE and Saudi Aramco judges.
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