First Osmosis Source Power Plant

First osmosis power plant goes on stream in Norway

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18204-first-osmosis-power-plant-goes-on-stream-in-norway.html

The world's first prototype osmotic power stationMovie Camera came on stream this week.

Sited on the banks of the Oslo fjord in southern Norway, it generates electricity using the natural process that keeps plants standing upright and the cells of our own bodies swollen, rigid and hydrated.

Osmosis occurs wherever two solutions of different concentrations meet at a semipermeable membrane. The spontaneous passage of water from dilute to concentrated solutions through the membrane generates a pressure difference that can be harnessed to generate power........

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