My colleague Jens Ole pointed me to this interesting piece of information.
A Danish company is developing a new technique that finally will make water desalination economical viable. By use of nano technology and proteins called Aquaporins the desalination process will be 5 to 10 times more efficient. Basically, the nano membrane and the Aquaporins makes sure that dirty or salty water is filtered into 100% pure and clean water.
What is really cool about this in a Jordanian perspective is that this process can be gravity driven – like in taking the water from 200 m above sea-level to 400 m below – eg. the Red-Dead project. That might save Jordan a couple of nuclear reactors along the canal 
More about the concept can be found here.
September 20, 2009 at 06:50
Thanks for this great news! Great minds, those Danes.