Sustainability

Clean water = Clean planet

HydroResonance provides a game-changing innovation on sustainable hydropower across various scales of application. We are not only producing highly-efficient energy with a low carbon footprint but also restoring and regenerating rivers. Moving from chemical water treatment methods to physical ones based on the application of resonance and frequencies, we transform the physical-chemical states of water. It improves the molecular structure of water, as well as, the chemical, thermo-physical and biological parameters of natural ecosystems.

The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.

​In January 2022, 14 scientists concluded in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology that humanity has exceeded a planetary boundary related to environmental pollutants and other “novel entities” including plastics.

Source: Persson et al. (2022). Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56, 3, 1510–1521. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158

Economic Risks

The Economic Impacts of Pesticides on Wildlife Researchers have found that there is a steady decline in worldwide insects due to pesticide exposure. They estimate that the overall decline in biodiversity including pollinator services, “beneficial” predators, birds and aquatic life costs over $100 billion annually. The role of soil biota in increasing agricultural productivity costs $25 billion annually. In 2009, the value of dependent crops attributed to all insect pollination was estimated to be worth $15.12 billion.

Another growing concern is Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, including PFOA, PFOS, GenX), which are a group of man-made chemicals. They are found in many industrial and consumer products, such as food packaging, nonstick cookware, polishes, and paints. These chemicals are very persistent in the environment and the human body; they don’t break down and accumulate over time. PFAS chemicals have been found in drinking water in locations where 19 million Americans reside in 49 states.

There is global evidence that exposure to PFAS leads to severe and adverse health effects in humans and other living organisms, including fish and animals. There are currently no effective treatment technologies to completely remove PFAS chemicals from contaminated water and land. Existing remediation processes and filtration technologies are limited and highly inadequate.

With more than 90,000 existing U.S. dams, of which less than 2,500 have power houses, the hydropower industry and river community collectively agreed that this basic fact created the opportunity to:

1. Rehabilitate powered and non-powered dams that need repairs,

2. Retrofit (e.g., upgrade) powered dams by adding generation at non-powered dams, developing pumped storage projects, and enhancing dam and reservoir operations, and

3. Remove dams that no longer provided benefits to society, have safety issues that cannot be cost-effectively mitigated, or have adverse environmental impacts that cannot be effectively addressed.