Environmental Economics: Osmotic Power

This animation explains how osmotic power can provide renewable sources of energy. Osmotic or salinity gradient power describes the energy available from the difference in salt concentration between two bodies of water, for example a river and an ocean. The world’s first osmotic power plant was opened in Tofte, Norway in 2009. Countries that can successfully develop renewable energy technologies stand to gain from both a growing domestic share of renewable energy but also from exporting / licencing the technology to other countries.