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Imagine a future where you could distill and electrolize1 half a bathtub of crappy, waste water from your local harbour and create a potent nuclear fuel capable of powering your whole city. Sounds like the stuff of bad Keanu Reeves pseudo-sci-fi; but, our good friends south of the border in sunny California, are attempting to do just that!
Last time I talked about how we’re going to power our portable objects such as mobile phones, laptops and cars. This week I want to discuss a stationary but very powerful technology that’s actually very “down-to-earth”