One of the world’s first osmotic power plants started operation at Tofte on the Oslo fjord in Norway last November, producing 2 kW to 4 kW after more than a decade of collaborative research and ...

The osmotic power plant guides sea water and fresh water into separate chambers, which are divided by an artificial membrane. Salt molecules pull the fresh water through the membrane, ...

Statkraft’s test facility was the world’s first osmotic-power plant when it opened in 2009. The company, which has been developing osmotic power since the late 1990s, ...

Osmotic power is clean and emission-free, and could become competitive within a few years, said Statkraft’s CEO, Bard Mikkelsen. The research work is supported by The Research Council of Norway.

Advantages of osmotic power: Large market potential. Baseload generation capability. Reduction in transmission required (because plants can be located close to power demand, unlike solar and wind).

Now researchers have discovered a new way to harness osmotic power that they claim would enable a 1 m 2 (10.7 sq. ft.) membrane to have the same 4 kW capacity as the entire Statkraft plant.

Norwegian utility lands major supply of membranes that generate electricity where fresh water meets salt water. NASA, DOE, Hydro-Quebec, post-nuclear Japan show interest in this CO2-free technology.

Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology opened its Osmotic Power Research Centre in 2010, the year before a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and led to ...

Norway tried to capture this energy using an osmotic power plant, but the plant mysteriously and abruptly shut down. Join our host George as he tries to figure out why using dialysis tubing, toilet ...

Norway tried to capture this energy using an osmotic power plant, but the plant mysteriously and abruptly shut down. Join George as he tries to figure out why using dialysis tubing, ...

(via Reactions) When seawater and freshwater mix, a surprising amount of energy is released.Norway tried to capture this energy using an osmotic power plant, but the plant mysteriously and abruptly ...

When equipped into a nanofluidic osmotic energy generator, this COF nanofluidic membrane can deliver a high output power of 5.31 W m −2 under a 50-fold salinity gradient. Moreover, the COF based ...