Israel’s Flow Industries makes an ‘air gun’ for clearing industrial blockages, and it may also provide a better way to extract shale oil.
Environment
The top 65 ways Israel is saving our planet
Since 1948, Israel has set itself a task of finding creative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. To celebrate Israel’s 65th birthday, ISRAEL21c looks at some of the best achievements.
Israeli salve for sick buildings
The Better Air system infuses indoor air with probiotics, leaving no room for germs and allergens to cause illness and body odor.
Israeli mom’s earth-friendly food and drink wrap
Distressed by all the landfill her kids were generating, Daphna Nissenbaum invented a packaging material you can put in the compost heap.
Bringing clean water to the globe
Amiad’s filtration and treatment technologies bring clean water to industries, households and farms in 70 countries.
Semiconductors from human proteins?
It’s weird, but it works: Award-winning Israeli research uses blood, milk and mucus proteins to build next-generation technology.
IBM-Israel brings smarter water tech to California
New partnership is ‘smartening up’ Sonoma County’s water system to help reduce California water usage by 20 percent by 2020.
Germ-slaying ozone creates pure water
“Clean” isn’t always as clean as you think. While the chemicals in cleaning solutions and water purification systems do away with germs, they dirty the environment and aren’t healthy for humans. An Israeli company is offering an alternative: an ozone-based …
Using water to power itself
What could be simpler than generating electricity for municipal water monitoring systems from the flow of the water itself? That’s the breakthrough idea of Israel’s HydroSpin.
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