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A brilliant proposal has been made to build a massive 2,400 MW seawater hydro project using the Mediterranean Sea, and the Dead Sea, which is below sea level. The Dead Sea Power Project would use the ocean to make hydropower, in a world first.

Canada’s top magazine has published a great article about the innovations emanating from Israel’s hi-tech centre.

Israel's national water company signed a financing agreement to build a desalination plant, which officials said could allow drought-ridden Israel to export water to its neighbors upon completion in 2013.

My cousin’s Kibbutz Amiad develops products for wastewater treatment. Recently a delegation of Israeli water companies, including Amiad visited Chile, where mining requires large quantities of water. Amiad’s systems help countries like Chile make better use of their water. They were even on the BBC.

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Israel’s IDE Technologies has developed a transportable clean-tech method of producing up to 10,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day. The reverse osmosis system uses bio-filters rather than chemicals and is ideal for use in disaster areas.

Dr Eran Ofek of the Weizmann Institute of Science, is working as part of an international effort to study supernovae. His results point to a likely scenario in which a medium range star supplies a white dwarf with the extra material needed to turn it into a supernova.

The two million square feet New York City institute on Roosevelt Island will accommodate nearly 2,000 graduate students and 250 faculty staff. Cornell University and the Israel Technion will collaborate in teaching, educating and advising students.

Israeli-developed radar satellite Ofek 10 was launched on Apr 9th from central Israel. Its advanced technology provides day and night observation and imaging under any weather conditions. It is quicker, more durable and less expensive than its predecessors.

The US giant is in advanced talks to make its first purchase of an Israeli company. Anobit provides flash memory solutions for smartphones, tablets, and music players.

(News thanks to NoCamels.) Why use the 140-year old QWERTY keyboard? With the transparent keyboard for touch-screen devices, Israeli family owned company Inpris uses an intuitive way of writing based on the movements of the fingers rather than pressing a certain point on the screen.