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Article: United States: Wave pumps to fuel desalination plant.
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- October 10, 2009
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A Texas company says it plans to use energy generated by waves in the Gulf of Mexico to make salt water drinkable.
Renew Blue Inc. plans to put 18 wave-powered pumps just under the surface about a mile off the coast of Texas. The pumps will send water over a wheel that turns a electric turbine.
Energy from the turbine will run a 3,000-gallon-a-day desalination plant on a platform above the water's surface, said Doug Sandberg, vice president of Renew Blue's parent company, Independent Natural Resources Inc.
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