A strong worldwide interest, especially in the Chilean public sector, has been generated by Crystal Lagoons' new technology to deal with humanity's biggest problem, potable fresh water shortage that affects over a billion people worldwide, with desalination that uses no energy. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, this number will grow to almost two billion by 2025.
With this purpose multinational Crystal Lagoons plans to set up pilot plants in several locations around the world. The project's experimental design ratified the viability and enormous potential for this innovation that uses warm water that industrial facilities and power plants throw to the sea. To offer an idea of the effectiveness of this technology, it's estimated that if it were applied in the 17 thermoelectric power plants currently installed in Northern Chile, they could generate potable water in a similar volume to Chile's entire consumption, without using additional energy and at very low costs.
It must be stressed that the multinational's technology has already been patented in the United States via the Green Fast Track program, which gives preference to granting patents to technologies that have a high ecological impact and environmental contribution.
Photo caption: Fernando Fischmann, biochemist, developed a disruptive technology to produce water without using energy.