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NanoHaven technology selected for SBIR Phase 1 innovation award

6/29/2021

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We are pleased to announce that FII has been selected for a Dept. of Energy SETO Phase One SBIR grant award. The grant’s purpose is to develop and test a technology that will oxygenate nutrient-impaired water in off-grid settings.

Gas bubbles are released from the bottom of a pond when a snorkeler, whose hand is in the picture, disturbs the muck at the bottom
Gases released from the sediments may include methane when the water is impaired to the point of being starved of oxygen
FII conceptualized the “NanoHaven” embodiment that will meet this goal and will develop and test it with the support of this pending award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office. Note that nutrient impaired water is a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that oxygenation will prevent, so a key component of our commercialization of this system will be related to climate change impact. 

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​Where Has All the Carbon Gone, so Early in the Morning?

6/24/2021

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When organic material, such as leaf litter, breaks down in water, the muck that accumulates breaks down slowly and can easily generate methane if the water doesn't have enough oxygen.

An underwater diver is stirring up the bottom of the pond and big bubbles of gas are being released
See what happens when sediments are disturbed at the bottom of a water body. Gases are released even in a healthy lake but when deprived of oxygen, they could include methane
Freshwater has become a key climate action window.  Freshwater is where carbon and excess nutrients stack up.  It’s where climate action and water stewardship can merge and may well be the single most concentrated greenhouse gas reduction opportunity available today.

Here are some basic data points that explain what is happening:

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What about the current drought… should we be worried?

6/24/2021

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In the current climate emergency, fish are the marker. If we can keep them alive and well, we have hope.

These rainbow trout are sheltering under a Biohaven floating island, where they find security and shade
Trout shelter under a BioHaven floating island to find security and shade
​It’s not even July yet and a new heat wave is developing, due in just a few days.  We’ve already broken heat records for the year a dozen times, and more record-breaking heat day are coming!

Climate change changes everything when it comes to stewardship of water and fish.  Is this the tip of the iceberg?  What iceberg?  It’s melted.

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Water Has Emerged as THE Low-Hanging Fruit for Climate Action

6/9/2021

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Water is a new realm for climate action and represents a relatively easy fix, following nature's model

As climate action finally begins in the United States in earnest, leaders face a maze of choices. The data keep coming in, and shifting, and sometimes changing. An example: methane is 21 times more impactful than carbon dioxide, per our EPA. Yet other credible and science-based entities state it’s 67 times more impactful, or 89 times. The fact that methane does not sustain in our atmosphere the same length of time as carbon dioxide does complicate quantifying its impact. We long for the day we can rely on data based on factual, empirical, nonpolitical science.

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​Wetlands Epitomize How Nature Supports Lake Health, But Where Have All the Wetlands Gone?

6/7/2021

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​A functional wetland, up watershed from a lake, can spell the difference between a healthy lake that’s resistant to Harmful Algae Blooms, and a lake that is both vulnerable to HABs and on its way out.

In this underwater photo, Bluegills are swimming among the roots hanging down from a floating island
Grow fish instead of algae: Bluegills swim among BioHaven roots, where they graze on periphyton
Such hyper-eutrophic lakes become shallower and even more vulnerable to near-monocultures of blue-green algae and cyanobacteria blooms, and related health risks.  Over and above these big negatives, recent climate science is quantifying that such lakes that regularly experience HABs are also methane emitters.  

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