@nicconley: Japan just figured out how to turn saltwater into electricity and it runs twenty-four hours a day without stopping Meet Kenji Hirokawa director of the Fukuoka Seawater Desalination Center which became the site of Japans first osmotic power plant only the second facility of its kind ever built in the world and thats where clean energy just solved its biggest problem Freshwater and concentrated saltwater are placed on opposite sides of a membrane Water naturally moves toward the saltier side That movement builds pressure The pressure spins a turbine No fuel no combustion no CO2 and unlike solar or wind it doesnt stop when the sun goes down Heres where it gets insane The plant generates eight hundred and eighty thousand kilowatt hours a year powering around two hundred and twenty homes and running a desalination facility supplying drinking water to two point six million people The saltwater used is brine waste from the desalination process itself turning a byproduct that used to damage marine ecosystems into a power source But the craziest part the oceans cover ninety-seven percent of the planets surface This technology works anywhere in the world where freshwater meets saltwater The worlds biggest untapped power source has been sitting in plain sight the entire time **Hashtags:** #KenjiHirokawa #OsmoticPower #KenjiFukuoka #OsmoticSeawater #KenjiDesalination

Man In The Mirror :

The board of Nestle are going to be mad

J :

i need to see the math on this cuz there’s no way this breaks even on cost and energy production

elgirl639 :

So mix freshwater with salt water to make energy ? We need the freshwater

danielarca8 :

nuclear does this too but faster and more power output

Brandon Mathews :

Did he really say oceans cover 97% of earhs surface

Elisa :

We need this in Hawaii. This is outstanding.

Tae - Da - Rebirph Baby!!! :

why do ya'll assume the wind doesn't blow at night😂😂😂😂 solar batteries collect & store energy. this is cool tho

Jimmy S.Y.Memes :

Meanwhile all we get is deregulation, massive pollution and tax cuts for billionaires.

mikkadu :

That's awesome! I don't understand why we can't use both renewable energy and fossil energy until we can figure out new forms of energy like this. 🤷‍♀️it should never be either/or it's both.

Mandi :

What's the environmental issues from it? Really asking...

Scott Sullivan :

220 home powered? What cost for that? When do they see ROI on that? Whose lifetime if ever? No fuel, no combustion, and a money pit. What a wonderful story they don’t dare share.

Gigi :

I’m looking forward to no more oil drilling

TickledFury :

This is amazing.

Compass-Yachts :

This is so awesome!

megatron0009 :

Bruh, this can potentially replace all the power on the coasts and the excess can be routed to the center in the US, this would be amazing

DaddieDangerPaddy :

Dale Funk :

sooo just where saltwater is. bc if it can power 220 homes + desalination then u can just use the desalinated water

gilesjefferson588 :

Congratulations on your magnificent innovative technology 👏 🙌 😀 👌 👍

alias parker :

Ocean covered 70 %

J Ro :

doesn't work in America unless you deposit $100 bills

RustyT :

Make the AI centers build these for their water and power needs.

Adam Freeman57 :

Ok the KW’s don’t make sense. If it was really 880,000KW then that would be roughly 73,300 homes with 1.2kw per day. Even if that’s a yearly total that still 61,111 homes. If it was 880,000 watts that would still 733 homes. So which one is right? 880,000KW or 233 homes? 233 homes would be just under 280KW.

Native Moran :

I don’t like it the world 🌍 is going water dry and this will make it worse also the ai centers this is really sick

Galahad :

It’s all just spinning turbines 😓

Patrick Curley :

This didn’t solve a problem it just created a different one