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SethDarling · Director, Center for Molecular Engineering · ✭
Greetings, fellow water enthusiasts! I direct a multi-institution research center called Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and have an active research program in new materials-based technologies for clean water. Our team at Argonne National Laboratory strongly believes in rethinking the water use cycle, closing the loop by recycling and reusing wastewater locally. This prize could be a powerful tool for incentivizing novel innovations toward this goal.
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Re: Draft Timeline
The timeline for the initial two steps is certainly reasonable, and perhaps could even be accelerated slightly if there is a consensus of valuing urgency. For the pilot-scale phase, however, 6 months… (View Post)1 -
Re: Impact Partnerships
I would recommend connecting with major water consortia for objective consultation of metrics. NAWI, the new U.S. DOE-supported water hub is a good example (https://www.nawihub.org/about). (View Post)2 -
Re: Poll: Prize Competition Directions
These are both essential elements in addressing the overall challenge, but given the tremendous diversity of governance/regulatory issues around the world, it is unlikely that there will be one or ev… (View Post)3 -
Re: New technology innovations can unlock water reuse
Generally speaking, little effort has been made commercially to address this issue. There is an engineering solution in that components are simply chemically cleaned or replaced periodically when the… (View Post)2 -
New technology innovations can unlock water reuse
While theoretically less energy is typically required to return wastewater to fit-for-purpose water compared to expanding withdrawals through, for example, seawater desalination, there are unique cha… (View Post)1
