Green Heroes: Ocean Oasis

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Desalinating sea water with zero emissions is a difficut task, but this team is on the right track. Ocean Oasis uses wave power to purify sea water and produce fresh water.

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00:00Already, more than 300 million people rely on desalination for their fresh water supply,

00:15a number that is expected to triple by 2050.

00:18As of today, more than 90% of the energy for desalination comes from fossil fuels, which

00:24makes access to fresh water very carbon intensive.

00:40In Ocean Oasis, we are developing a new and very innovative sustainable technology for

00:46fresh water production offshore.

00:48We're using wave power to mechanically drive a desalination reverse osmosis process and

00:54pump fresh water to shore.

00:58It's a floating offshore structure that uses the relative motion between two floating bodies

01:07in a floating unit to pressurize seawater and drive it through a reverse osmosis desalination

01:12process.

01:22Our vision is a world without water scarcity, and for us, this is the main motivation in

01:29our work.

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