Wáter and URANIUM!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

It might not be enough to turn this little town in Mane around, however, tidal power has created jobs, and clean energy here.

Can Tidal Power Create Enough Jobs To Save A Dying Town?
www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/07/31/can-tidal-power-create-enough-jobs-to-save-a-dying-town/

Plus we can use all of our waste water to create power as well.

Sewage as energy: An essentially unlimited renewable resource
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/sewage-as-energy-an-essentially-unlimited-renewable-resource/article4404628/

Some more interesting points for GE.

Italian City Upgrades Wastewater Treatment Plant with GE Advanced Technology Making It the Second Largest Municipal MBR Plant in Italy
www.genewscenter.com/Press-Releases/Italian-City-Upgrades-Wastewater-Treatment-Plant-with-GE-Advanced-Technology-Making-It-the-Second-Largest-Municipal-MBR-Plant-in-Italy-39b7.aspx

GE Highlights Early Successes of Its Singapore Water Technology Centre
en.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/9820/ge-highlights-early-successes-of-its-singapore-water-technology-centre

GE Introduces Major Energy Efficiency Breakthrough for Desalination Plants
www.marketwatch.com/story/ge-introduces-major-energy-efficiency-breakthrough-for-desalination-plants-2012-07-02

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is truly amazing...

Record haul of uranium harvested from seawater
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22201-record-haul-of-uranium-harvested-from-seawater.html

Lingering doubts over the future of US energy security are breathing new life into a technology that has lain dormant for more than a decade.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have more than doubled the amount of uranium that can be extracted from seawater using Japanese technology developed in the late 1990s.

The world's oceans contain around 4.5 billion tons of uranium, enough fuel to power every nuclear plant on the planet for 6,500 years. The results were presented on 21 August at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia.

"Our original goal was to double what the Japanese have achieved with absorption capacity," says PNNL chemical oceanographer Gary Gill. "We have surpassed that."

The technology Japanese researchers pioneered uses long mats of braided plastic fibres, embedded with uranium-absorbent amidoxime, to capture trace amounts of uranium in the ocean. The mats are placed 200 metres underwater to soak up uranium before being brought to the surface. They are then washed in an acidic solution that captures the radioactive metal for future refinement.