Cees Buisman, Turning Blue-Sky Thinking into Solutions for the Food-Water Nexus

28 Aug 2013 · 19 min
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Cees Buisman argues that food and water systems need radical innovation, not incremental fixes. He highlights three breakthroughs: ionic liquids that cut desalination energy by 94%, anaerobic granules that recycle phosphorus, and a fuel cell that recovers nitrogen from urine while generating electricity. Success requires separating inventors from scale-up teams and building trust-based public-private clusters.

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