Everyone needs power these days. The oil and gas industry uses a lot. And they have a problem. To clean their highly toxic wastewater would require a lot power. How much?
"At current efficiency levels, treating all the effluent of the West Texas oilfield would require up to 26 gigawatts of power"
One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.
