The Ocean Age

#46: Robert Bergstrom (OceanWell Water) – Fresh Water From the Depths of the Ocean

September 8, 2026·1h 5m
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Send us Fan Mail Here is a link to get more information about The Ocean Age Walk & Talk and join the waitlist. Episode Intro: California is in its deepest drought in 1,200 years, and Robert Bergstrom reckons that without the ocean the state would have to depopulate. He spent decades building desalination plants the traditional way: on land, pumping seawater up, pressurising it, and pushing salty brine back out. Now he is sinking the membranes 450 metres down and letting the ocean's own pr...

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