September Current Event

In many countries, there is little access to clean drinking water and desalination of sea water is one of the only options. This means taking the salt out of the water, creating a solution called brine, which is composed of many different minerals. The speaker in the video suggests using this brine solution to create a "sea mining industry" from which the minerals could be extracted. This is a very innovative idea that helps not only save the planet from drilling for minerals, but it also helps save the ecosystems of the water in which the bring would be dumped back into. If this new technology could work, it could have a massive impact on our environmental impact worldwide. link to ted talk

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  1. chrheaOctober 17, 2017 at 8:19 AM

    I love this! I think that this kind of innovation (more about making connections between companies than inventing new technologies) will be the key to sustaining the planet.

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