paulbot24
03-15-2013, 05:58 PM
WASHINGTON — A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity has become a global security issue. The process, officials and engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp. say, would enable filter manufacturers to produce thin carbon membranes with regular holes about a nanometer in size that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough to block the molecules of salt in seawater.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/weapons-maker-finds-way-to-desalinate-water-using-graphene
Does anybody else find this ironic? So, according to current news, Lockheed will save us from an impending global drinking water crisis, and Halliburton (who owns most of the patents involved in fracking) will solve our energy crisis! I know this is supposed to be good news, but.....well, does it have to be THEM? My question is this: Do these "organizations" actually invent these breakthroughs or do these kinds of patents get "massaged" over to them to keep the MIC rich?
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/weapons-maker-finds-way-to-desalinate-water-using-graphene
Does anybody else find this ironic? So, according to current news, Lockheed will save us from an impending global drinking water crisis, and Halliburton (who owns most of the patents involved in fracking) will solve our energy crisis! I know this is supposed to be good news, but.....well, does it have to be THEM? My question is this: Do these "organizations" actually invent these breakthroughs or do these kinds of patents get "massaged" over to them to keep the MIC rich?