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Wave-Powered Desalination Gets Key Backing

• earthtechling.com
 Carnegie Wave Energy had always pitched “Ceto” as a combo producer, using submerged buoys anchored to the sea floor and tethered to pump units to deliver pressurized water onshore through a pipeline where it can both drive hydroelectric turbines and undergo reverse osmosis to remove impurities.
 
“Carnegie’s wave powered seawater desalination technology offers a novel and promising approach to achieving desalinated freshwater with zero greenhouse gas emissions,” Water Corporation CEO Sue Murphy said in a statement [PDF].

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