FUKUOKA – A Japanese water plant is harnessing the natural process of osmosis to generate renewable energy that could one day become a common power source.
The possibility of generating power from osmosis — when water molecules pass from a less salty solution to a more salty one — has long been known.
But actually generating energy from that has proved more complicated, in part due the difficulty of designing the membrane through which the molecules pass.
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