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Exhibition 'Water Wars: fight the food crisis' (Science Museum, London)
The Cyprus Institute is featured prominently in an exhibition in the Science Museum in London (UK) on the planet's shortage of fresh water. According to the museum, this shortage is likely to get much worse. In search of solutions, five new technologies are featured which may help.
The exhibition is called 'Water Wars; fight the food crisis'. One of the solutions featured is the project of The Cyprus Institute in which concentrated solar power is used to generate both desalinated sea water and electricity. The accompanying website explains all five solutions, interviews the researchers and engineers behind them, and lets experts give their opinion on the pros and cons of the technology. It even has a game called 'Drench' in which the player has to try to keep a population alive by using all five technologies.
Photo's: Jennie Hills - Science Museum, London
The page on the CyI project, 'Sun Worshippers', features an interview with coordinator George Tzamtzis, in which he explains: ‘As a Mediterranean island there are two things we have lots of: sun and sea water. Concentrated solar power (CSP) desalination will use these natural resources to produce fresh water for the island and for farmers to grow food.’ Read the full interview on the Water Wars page about the project here.
The popular British TV channel ITN broadcast an item on the desalination project in the ITN News of Thursday 29 September. You can see a video of the item below.
The exhibition 'Water Wars; fight the food crisis' runs until 20 March 2012.
