A new study conducted at MIT has examined the potential of pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO), a technique that generates electricity from the difference in salinity between two pools of water separated ...

For this experiment, we're going to examine how this pressure affects the cherries - and the farmers that grow them! Osmosis is the diffusion of fluids through membranes. It is the way plants absorb ...

Reverse osmosis is a process familiar to most plant operators. Push makeup water through the right kind of membrane with sufficient pressure (osmotic pressure) and you generate a stream with few ...

Japan launches Asia's first and only osmotic power plant, which generates energy 24 hours a day using salt water.

Norwegian power company Statkraft has shelved its much-watched effort to harness energy from pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO). It said in a rare industry admission that the technology could not be ...

Estuaries -- where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea -- are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of ...

To survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological conditions is a ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Apr., 1946), pp. 278-285 (8 pages) The germination of alfalfa seeds was tested on substrates supplied with solutions of NaCl and mannitol at osmotic ...

The influence of osmotic pressure on the growth rate of a cell line (IMC-HZ-1) from a moth, Heliothis zea, was studied. The cells grew at approximately the same rate in media ranging from 290 to 360 ...

An osmotic oral drug delivery system is one which depends on the mechanics of osmotic pressure variations to regulate the delivery of the drug or active agent. This is a step forward in ensuring ...

Japan's first osmotic power plant that uses the difference in salt concentration between seawater and fresh water to generate electricity began operations in early August in a southwestern prefecture.