Derek Smith
@djsmitty156.bsky.social
PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering
Sometimes freelance writer; amateur nature photographer
All thoughts my own.
Sometimes freelance writer; amateur nature photographer
All thoughts my own.
NEW PRESS RELEASE - Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste🧪💧
Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.
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Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NEW PRESS RELEASE - Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste🧪💧
Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.
Read more
Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.
Read more
UMich researchers are working with UWash, UPenn, LBNL, Google, HPE, Microsoft, and Nvidia on a platform that transfers data between chips with light instead of electricity.
They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...
They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...
Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips
AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.
news.engin.umich.edu
January 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
UMich researchers are working with UWash, UPenn, LBNL, Google, HPE, Microsoft, and Nvidia on a platform that transfers data between chips with light instead of electricity.
They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...
They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...
PRESS RELEASE: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals and extra reverse osmosis steps. 💧🧪news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...
New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.
news.engin.umich.edu
January 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
PRESS RELEASE: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals and extra reverse osmosis steps. 💧🧪news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...
New press release: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...
DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!
DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!
New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.
news.engin.umich.edu
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New press release: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...
DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!
DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!
@ SCIENCE WRITERS. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a U-M research scientists is will to chat about Parker Solar Probe's closest approach with the sun on December 24th. He will use the data to help solve the long-standing coronal heating problem—why the sun's atmosphere is 200X hotter than its surface.
December 18, 2024 at 9:33 PM
@ SCIENCE WRITERS. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a U-M research scientists is will to chat about Parker Solar Probe's closest approach with the sun on December 24th. He will use the data to help solve the long-standing coronal heating problem—why the sun's atmosphere is 200X hotter than its surface.