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Why Coastal Cities Are Betting on Osmotic Power. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: incogni.com/undecided What if you could power cities just by mixing river water with seawater? Around 15,000 TWh of energy pours into the oceans each year as freshwater blends with saltwater at river mouths. That amounts to roughly half the energy the world consumes in electricity every year. And we may have finally found a way to tap it. It’s called osmotic power, and it could provide clean energy around the clock. As freshwater becomes scarcer, more cities are turning to desalination plants to meet their water needs. Desalination is energy-intensive, but osmotic power could use the same salty wastewater from desalination to generate electricity instead of just dumping it back in the ocean. But how does this tech work? Could a combination of fresh and saltwater be the “solution” to the world’s ever-increasing energy demands?
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Why Coastal Cities Are Betting on Osmotic Power. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: incogni.com/undecided What if you could power cities just by mixing river water with seawater? Around 15,000 TWh of energy pours into the oceans each year as freshwater blends with saltwater at river mouths. That amounts to roughly half the energy the world consumes in electricity every year. And we may have finally found a way to tap it. It’s called osmotic power, and it could provide clean energy around the clock. As freshwater becomes scarcer, more cities are turning to desalination plants to meet their water needs. Desalination is energy-intensive, but osmotic power could use the same salty wastewater from desalination to generate electricity instead of just dumping it back in the ocean. But how does this tech work? Could a combination of fresh and saltwater be the “solution” to the world’s ever-increasing energy demands?
Watch How Solar Changed in 2025 (And What's Next)
youtu.be/FffKMMnisu4?list=PLnTSM-ORSgi7uzySCXq8VXhodHB5B5OiQ
Video script and citations:
https://undecided.tech/why-coastal-cities-are-betting-on-osmotic-power/
Get my achieve energy security with solar guide:
undecided.link/solar-guide
Follow-up podcast:
Video version - youtube.com/channel/UC4-aWB84Bupf5hxGqrwYqLA
Audio version - undecided.link/stilltbd-podcast
Join the Undecided Discord server:
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👋 Support Undecided on Patreon!
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Calling in the PRO
08:09 - Sweetching It Up
