Making Clean Water with a Spark of Electricity | Korneel Rabaey | TEDxBrussels

Electrify the world! You may spontaneously think about electric cars, however electricity can do so much more. We can use it to feed bacteria that convert carbon dioxide from a chimney to valuable products. We can replace nasty chemicals used to combat sewer corrosion in your own neighborhood, recover chemicals considered lost in wastewater and create safe water in Indian slums. As electricity increasingly finds sustainable sources, we should take this as an opportunity to create a greener chemical and water sector.
Korneel Rabaey is professor at the Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology at Ghent University.
After graduating as bioengineer, he worked for almost 6 years in Australia on novel technologies for electricity driven bioconversions.
Back in Europe since 2011, he leads a team working on a diverse portfolio of technologies all driven by electricity and targeting waste cleanup, bioproduction and sanitation.
Until recently he was also president of ISMET, since 2015 he is listed as ISI Highly Cited Researcher
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@borisatman2]

Imagine what our world would be if all brilliant inventors on this planet would not be killed

[@xoxrexy]

Exactly 😂😂😂

[@hoofheartedicemelted296]

Or, everyone could eat organic from their own aquaponic verticle farming setup in their own backyard and within months their waste would be colonized with beneficial bacteria which could be deposited directly into the soil say of the United States of America and rejuvenate the health of the soil and be able to begin replanting that land within 5-10 years with more organic methods which could be eaten by the masses and package using recyclable materials and would be much more sustainable for the forseeable future.

[@jacquesalschech6485]

Is there of introducing an electric current to a hot water furnace or even house hold water.

[@nicolegomez383]

so is it possible for our body's to be zapped a bit just a bit in our blood to see if it kills any bad organism bateria etc....?

[@Dionysius.]

Bob Beck. The Beck system. Blood electrification/purification. Immortal blood. Answer is yes. Very successfully.

[@Dionysius.]

Also silver and iodine greatly assist the body.

[@rizsarwar2713]

Hulda clark zapper

[@jamieingels1190]

Yes! They've sent a guy to jail for curing people from AIDS by doing this.

[@theenchantedkettle2956]

He is on point this tech is used in swimming pools to make chlorine from.salt

[@hoofheartedicemelted296]

Yes but can you do it in a bath without blowing bubbles?

[@ericwilkes238]

What if you could use your body movement to make electricity say like walking and using your shoes as a pump or slide magnet just thinking out logic

[@ericwilkes238]

Maybe socks and shoes could make a few volts.

[@jamieingels1190]

Like kinetic energy! You just have to harness it somehow. It's totally possible. 👍

[@KWifler]

There is already such a thing as piezoelectric clothing with LED's on them, purely powered by your body. There are even watches that use your pulse from your wrist to charge the battery. In some places, the flashy shoes for kids have been banned because they work too well. I don't hear much about any of these technologies anymore.

[@aryankarki7900]

Eye 👁 opening.

[@markcampbell7577]

The better sterilizer of water is using microwaves. An Edison generator and dynamos for zero fuel electric power. We use microwaves and filter's. But the water is always nutrient rich. This method is only good for swimming pools. We need to focus on reducing the nutrient rich water falling on the planet.

[@_ARCATEC_]

Far out Brussels sprouts

[@popoymaster975]

i can fart without a sound!

[@abhinavchauhan7864]

Fook yeh

[@jamieingels1190]

Where does the sound go?

[@prathameshmagar8114]

Sensei 🙏🏻

[@coreydoyle4702]

The information feels cheapened when the presentation is promoting a book. Good information non the less.

[@intentionalserendipi]

That is not a book promotion. It was a hypothetical scenario in the future, to make the point.

[@coreydoyle4702]

Igor Celikovic You mean, the books that were promoted at the end of the presentation, were not a book promotion? Perhaps you ought to watch the video again, particularly around the 10:48 mark.

[@korneelrabaey9303]

Dear Corey, relax! That book does not exist and I have no plan to write it. I was expressing my hope that in the future, people would try to be much more inventive about renewable energy and what we can do with it

[@coreydoyle4702]

***** I meant no disrespect. Only these TED talks seem to sometimes be used as a promotional platform, which I think is grossly inappropriate. If that was not the intention, and these books indeed do not exist but were merely used to convey a point, then I do apologize. But again, the information I did find very interesting. Cheers

[@naimarestoringdivinity7938]

When water is electrified as a means to purify the water, after the things we don't want are eliminated what is left in the water? I guess I'm asking, is the water now "dead water"? And what type of text kits can we buy to test this out? I'm trying to decide if this is a viable option because I'm searching for geothermal hot springs water for drinking due to high mineral content.

[@eaglegp7]

I can light a bull using just people.

[@carmelinarosinski8953]

If you don't know how to make it by yourself , just go to inplix website.

[@uniqued4ve]

Inplix must definitively be a LIE.