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1. Big Gains Expected for Emerging Water Tech by 2020
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2. Daily Sprout
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3. Obama to Plug Green Jobs at Cali Electric Car Lab
Big Gains Expected for Emerging Water Tech by 2020
Josie Garthwaite - Startups
Take the salt or waste out of undrinkable water, and what do you get? The product of a market poised to swell to 54 trillion liters per year by 2020 – triple the global desalinated water supply in 2008. According to a new report from Lux Research, the supply will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent over the next decade, with much of it being produced using a raft of new technologies.
According to Lux analysts, the next decade of desalination will be about challenging the industry’s current king: reverse osmosis. Rising demand and advances in emerging technologies, they say, will shift the competitive landscape — dominated until now by so-called RO and increasingly peppered with startups (case in point: well-funded Oasys). The technology accounted for 54 percent of the revenue share for desalination equipment last year.
This doesn’t mean reverse osmosis is about to disappear. While Lux expects reverse osmosis to share the seawater desalination market with a cadre of forward osmosis variants and face new rivals in the brackish water segment, when it comes to wastewater, the research firm doesn’t expect challengers to make much headway.
“The bottom line is that there are growth opportunities in brackish water and recycling,” Lux senior analyst Michael LoCascio said an a release about the new report today. “But RO is so entrenched that its variations will dominate for 20 years, with new technologies coming to market only through RO hybridization.”
If we’re really approaching “peak water” — using up its ecological value, as Pacific Institute cofounder Peter Gleick suggested earlier this year — there will be plenty of takers for the fresh H2O.
Daily Sprout
Josie Garthwaite - Misc
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Bridging the Science-Policy Gap: Scientists have the knowledge, politicians and social institutions hold the power — and channels between them are rudimentary. Some analysts are calling for a fundamental shift in emphasis within the scientific community to ensure that emissions are cut and civilization adapts to its impacts. — Scientific American
Obama to Plug Green Jobs at Cali Electric Car Lab
Josie Garthwaite - Automotive
The President of the United States doesn’t often tour garages. But this week, President Barack Obama plans to stop in at a plug-in hybrid and electric car test lab in Pomona, Calif., which includes the so-called “garage of the future” — a grid-connected, solar-powered green car dream dock.
Southern California Edison created the demonstration facility, called the Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center (pictured below), more than 15 years ago, and teamed up with Ford Motor in 2007 to deploy a test fleet of plug-in Ford Escape Hybrid SUVs as part of the project. (By the way, Obama drove that same model — straight hybrid, no plug — during the campaign.) An SCE spokesperson confirmed with us today that Obama’s visit is planned for Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, the President plans to hold a town hall-style meeting in nearby Costa Mesa, Calif. Following his visit to the Edison facility, he will tape an interview with Jay Leno, AFP reports. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters yesterday that “the President hopes to focus and highlight the ability for clean energy jobs to spur economic growth and job creation as we go forward.” Sounds like green jobs will be getting a prime time (and late-night) spotlight this week.
Photo courtesy Southern California Edison
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