{"id":73318,"date":"2017-10-15T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/how-scientists-and-supercomputers-could-make-oceans-drinkable"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:58:59","slug":"how-scientists-and-supercomputers-could-make-oceans-drinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/how-scientists-and-supercomputers-could-make-oceans-drinkable","title":{"rendered":"How scientists and supercomputers could make oceans drinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-scientists-and-supercomputers-could-make-oceans-drinkable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleksandr Noy has<\/strong> big plans for a very small tool. A senior research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Noy has devoted a significant part of his career to perfecting the liquid alchemy known as desalination\u2014removing salt from seawater. His stock-in-trade is the carbon nanotube. In 2006, Noy had the audacity to embrace a radical theory: Maybe nanotubes\u2014cylinders so tiny, they can be seen only with an electron microscope\u2014could act as desalination filters. It depended on just how wide the tubes were. The opening needed to be big enough to let water molecules flow through but small enough to block the larger salt particles that make seawater undrinkable. Put enough carbon nanotubes together and you potentially have the world\u2019s most efficient machine for making clean water.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/about\/stories\/scientists-could-make-oceans-drinkable\/\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/about\/stories\/scientists-could-make-oceans-drinkable\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksandr Noy has big plans for a very small tool. A senior research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Noy has devoted a significant part of his career to perfecting the liquid alchemy known as desalination\u2014removing salt from seawater. His stock-in-trade is the carbon nanotube. In 2006, Noy had the audacity to embrace a radical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-supercomputing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}