Osmotic Power

*There's about a million eccentric power-generation schemes; this one's especially cute because it's osmotic. There's an Arthur C. Clarke story — gosh, must be 50 years old by now — that had a passing mention of an "osmotic bomb."

*You gotta like the idea of Norway somehow running on membranes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8377186.stm

Norway's Statkraft opens first osmotic power plant

By Mark Gregory

BBC News technology correspondent

The world's first power project that generates energy by m...