Emerging Environmental Technology

As the attention towards issues such as global warming become more and more prominent among daily life, people are developing increasingly environmental friendly technology to guard against destroying the environment. Eco friendly technologies that have not yet been introduced to the public, or are in the process of emerging, hold much potential in cleaning up the polluted world. From the newly introduced hydrogen car to electronic paper, humanity is starting to take the initiative to help save the world.

As of right now, our oil crisis is beginning to take a toll on our economy, slowly but surely. But scientists have come up with a way to produce oil from just about anything. Carbon based waste such as turkey leftovers to scrap tires can be turned into oil through a process called thermo-depolymerization. This is very similar to how nature produces oil, only with technology, we are able to heat and pressurize the carbon based remains and speed up the process by millions of years. Supporters of this process claim that a ton of turkey waste can produce up to 600 pounds of petroleum.

The world is covered with 1.4 billion km³ of water, in which m³ equals 1,000 liters. 70% of the world is covered with water, of which 97% consists of saltwater. That only leaves 3% of the world's water as drinkable. A water crisis is looming on the horizon as billions will be left without water near the middle of this century. People are rapidly attempting to find cheaper and more efficient ways of desalination, which means taking salt out of the saltwater to create drinking water. Scientists have ideas of increased efficiency which consists of heating and evaporating the saltwater with inexpensive fuels, then running the water through membranes with microscopic pores.