Tag: water
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Lockheed Martin’s Desalination Graphene Filters
Lockheed has developed a special material that doesn’t need as much energy to drag water through the filter. Graphene is a substance made of pure carbon. Carbon atoms are arranged in a regular hexagonal or honeycomb pattern in a one-atom thick sheet. This special material is a film of a special structure of carbon, a…
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Your Water Bill Doubles For What?
God bless Ben Joravsky. All summer long, in press conferences and at public hearings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget refrain remained the same: no more accounting gimmicks and no new taxes. “We have been doing smoke and mirrors on the budget and avoided taking control of our own future as a city,” he said at a…