Demand for desalinated water in Cebu goes by 60%

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth


Mactan Rock Industries

Rizal Philippines
January 11, 2015

Mactan Rock Industries Inc (MRII) Chairman Antonio Tampar reported a 60% increase in the consumption of desalinated water in Cebu. The largest consumer are hotels malls and industrials.  They set up the largest desalination plant in the country with Pilipinas Water Resources.  Their plant is capable of supplying 22,000 cubic meters of desalinated water a day.  It promises to be back up for adequate water supply in case of shortage.

Desalination processes brackish or sea water by either thermal or reverse osmosis process (the sea water is pumped at high pressure at 1,000 psi through polyester membrane which causes brine to separate from fresh pure water.  This means desalination is an energy intensive process and makes the water from desalination costlier than fresh unprocessed water from water districts.

MRII has 50 outlets nationwide which means desalination is accepted in the country now.

They build and supply filtration aside from SWRO. They have BOOM scheme.   Build  Own, Operate and Manage

Innovation for campaigning via fruits

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
January 6, 2016

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This is a sure winning idea on how to campaign cheaply, even when it is not yet campaign period.

New ideas for biking

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
January 6, 2016

In my class in entrepreneurship, I encourage students to be creative and to exercise their minds in finding low cost solution, low tech solutions to their problems.

Bike gadgets can be very expensive and you must devise ways to to create cheap solutions

Some of them:

1.  bottom of the bike and stays  mud, rock and scratch, rubber guard made from old tire interior and cable ties;

2.  lens cleaner for eyeglasses and sports wear from the old container;  the contents are made from water and joy diswashing fluid.  No expenses and clean as good.  The new cleaner costs P129,00

How climate change leads to research on graphene for use in reverse osmosis in desalination plants

New ideas create new products and wealth

Philippines
January 2, 2015

Climate change reveals that even in USA, as featured in National Geo, there is widespread drought.    There are farming communities in California that died simply because there is no more water to grow plants with, or drink, and even to wash and bathe.

                                                               California Drought

The solution that is seen is desalination since California is a coastal state and near the Pacific Ocean.  However, desalination is costly since this both capital and op ex intensive.  Operating the plant is costly with the two methods currently employed:   thermal and reverse osmosis.   (SWRO - Salt Water Reverse Osmosis)   The process too uses a lot of energy since salt water is pumped at high pressure 1000 psi through the semi permeable membrane to separate salt from pure water;  brine is then pumped back to the sea water, the pure water is stored and then pumped to the waterworks system.


Privately owned desalination $1 billion Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego CA to ease CA drought?   This plant will add $5 to $7 per household in their monthly water bill

From KQED -why desalination plants are not the only answer to CA drought?  -  The OK process takes too long.


From Al Jazeera - CA turns to ocean to solve drought problem

From LiveScience - top innovation stories for 2015

New Ideas Create New Products and Wealth

Philippines  January 1, 2016

It is going to be a very good new year.  Prosperous new year wish to every one.

Let us review the year that was in top innovation  -   From LiveScience

What are some of them?

Crowds and computer could together solve worlds "wicked problems"

US Produces Plutonium 238 for the first time in 30 years. Possible fuel for space exploration

Google glass redux for surgery broadcast and monitoring employees with wearables and other mobile devices

Future of robotics - space exploration, garbage collection, firefighting.  We hope that robots fighting humans does become a reality

                                             Bots as garbage collectors

uPeek a smartphone app/device converts your phone into a powerful microscope



Read More on top 10 2015 innovation at LiveScience >>>>

Top Innovation Feature stories

Innovation create wealth and improve lives

Disney's Vertigo Robots can climb walls      

Control of TV via Smartphone, a wish by Samsung


China Robotic showcase   


                       

Top 10 Breakthrough New Ideas in 2015 from MIT

New Ideas Create Wealth and Prosperity

Philippines
January 1, 2015

Here is a list of top 10 new tech ideas in 2015 from MIT

From MIT Technology Review

What I like and which I think are easy to apply and where needs are most urgent:

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1.  Project Loon of Google using 20 km high helium balloon to bring ineternet access to remote places of the globe.  About 60% of the world population do not have internet acess

2.  Megascale desalination plant by Sorek in Israel, which is cheaper and more efficient can solve world's shortage of fresh water supply.  There is a shortage of world supply among 700 million of world's population.  Sorek produces 20% of Israel water's need.  It costs only 58 cents to produce one cubic meter of water, about same cost as retail water in PHL, and 50% less than other desalination plant

3.  Liquid biopsy using DNA testing for early detection of cancer Discovered by Dr. Dennis Lo of China. Could help reduce deaths from cancer due to early cancer detetection

4.  Growing brain organoids from stem cells for helping regrow brain tissues ravaged by old age and injuries.  Studies by Madeline Lancaster

Read more >>>>

Top BBC science news

Innovation creates new products and new wealth

Top BBC Science News

The BBC recently featured the following science news:

1.  Clearer pictures of Pluto

2..  Brit in space

3.  Discover of Homo nelida, a homo like specie who is at least 80,000

4.  The climate change conference in Paris (did they agree on somethng?)