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[00:00:43] We challenge the limits of reality. We hack the technoscientific
[00:00:47] status quo. Welcome to the Atomun booth,
[00:00:50] the hyperport where innovation, science
[00:00:54] and digital sovereignty converge to connect with the peoples
[00:00:58] of the Great Homeland. An absolute privilege to trace
[00:01:02] this route with you through the Telesur ecosystem, I'm
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[00:01:23] We start the transfer of critical data processed by
[00:01:27] the production team without losing a nanosecond,
[00:01:31] we start instantly.
[00:01:43] Water scarcity is no longer a distant hypothesis, but
[00:01:47] a reality that drives a radical transformation in oceanic
[00:01:51] shading, intentional changes engineering. For this reason,
[00:01:54] we always aim with today's atomun cognitive log examines how wave
[00:01:56] and tidal energy bring
[00:02:00] drinking water from the sea, drastically reducing the carbon
[00:02:04] us on the program's footprint and operating costs through new desalination
[00:02:08] plants, as well as their challenges
[00:02:11] and thanks to the integration of artificial
[00:02:14] intelligence for dynamic membrane management and
[00:02:18] the use of renewable marine sources, but
[00:02:21] first I invite you to see how the
[00:02:25] innovative dynamic of the
[00:02:27] week moves:
[00:02:32] In Yekaterinburg, Russia, the International Youth Festival
[00:02:36] 2026 is being held, which brings together
[00:02:38] more than 10,000 young people from 191 countries to
[00:02:42] discuss trends, science, technology and global leadership.
[00:02:46] From this festival, I hope to make excellent
[00:02:50] contacts with the right people who are definitely
[00:02:53] here. In each sector there are key people that
[00:02:57] you can find and meet here. Great new
[00:03:00] connections that will help you advance in your personal
[00:03:03] field, I personally hope to find professional
[00:03:07] presenters, organizers and directors who might
[00:03:10] also find me. I am willing
[00:03:12] inspired by the cellular filtration to travel the world, to work all over the
[00:03:14] world.
[00:03:17] International initiatives offer their training
[00:03:20] here, connecting
[00:03:23] Systems linked with the boundaries educators, health professionals, content
[00:03:26] creators and social organizations under a single
[00:03:31] purpose of integration. At the International Youth Festival
[00:03:34] 2026, we presented our international
[00:03:37] organization Eurasia. The mission of our organization
[00:03:41] is to unite people from all over the world under
[00:03:44] our projects. We offer projects for young
[00:03:48] people, for teachers, for doctors,
[00:03:50] for young journalists and bloggers and
[00:03:54] for different societies and non-profit organizations
[00:03:57] to unite people under the idea of.
[00:04:12] The logistical and emotional heart of the festival beats thanks to the dedication of hundreds of volunteers, whose human warmth transforms this space into a shared home regardless of language or origin.
[00:04:16] origin.
[00:04:17] I am
[00:04:20] a volunteer, my name is Yana, I am from Russia, I live
[00:04:24] in Yekaterinburg, I am a second-year student at
[00:04:28] the Urals University.
[00:04:30] I like this festival, it is my dream,
[00:04:34] I like people, I like friendship, I like this
[00:04:37] everywhere.
[00:04:41] For many, stepping onto this international stage represents
[00:04:44] the fulfillment of a goal and the beginning of a global
[00:04:48] support network that transcends the days of the event.
[00:04:53] It's my first time participating in this type of global program and I hope to meet
[00:04:57] people from different countries, different.
[00:05:00] I am very excited about it, and yes, that's all,
[00:05:04] from this meeting, the youth of
[00:05:07] the planet show that people's diplomacy and... without
[00:05:11] prejudice are possible, here
[00:05:14] not only professional projects are built, but
[00:05:17] also the foundations of a more united and
[00:05:21] supportive tomorrow. For Telesur Daisy Tusen,
[00:05:24] Yekaterinburg,
[00:05:25] Russia.
[00:09:52] We continue traveling through the matrix of knowledge through our
[00:09:55] Telesur signal, this is Atomun. Synthetic
[00:09:59] biology with high ecological impact technology
[00:10:02] is transforming seawater into a truly
[00:10:05] sustainable drinking resource for the future of
[00:10:08] the planet. This disruptive innovation not only
[00:10:12] overcomes the historical challenges of contamination and
[00:10:15] energy consumption, but also merges biological
[00:10:19] engineering. Therefore, it is worth asking, can
[00:10:22] nature teach us to desalinate better?
[00:10:25] This, in the face of the growing global water crisis,
[00:10:29] let's discover how marine biomimicry is redefining
[00:10:32] ocean science, here is the material,
[00:10:35] travelers of knowledge.
[00:10:38] saber.
[00:10:47] The UN estimates that 2.2 billion people
[00:10:50] lack safely managed drinking water.
[00:10:53] From this scarcity, desalination allows seawater
[00:10:57] to be converted into a resource suitable for consumption,
[00:11:00] but this solution has an environmental
[00:11:03] cost. Techniques such as reverse osmosis and
[00:11:07] thermal distillation demand large amounts of
[00:11:10] energy and require complex water
[00:11:13] treatments, in addition to generating brine,
[00:11:16] a waste with a salt concentration much higher than that of
[00:11:20] seawater. When discharged without proper management, it can
[00:11:23] alter salinity and oxygen in the environment,
[00:11:27] affecting marine ecosystems. Thus,
[00:11:31] desalination can help to face water
[00:11:33] scarcity, but the challenge is to do it without transferring
[00:11:37] the problem to the ocean. New technologies seek to
[00:11:41] make this process more efficient by combining artificial
[00:11:44] intelligence with marine energies, such as
[00:11:48] wave and tidal power to optimize
[00:11:51] in real time the operation of membranes and reduce
[00:11:54] their energy consumption. To this are added
[00:11:57] nanomaterials such as porous graphene membranes
[00:12:01] and carbon nanotubes that seek to increase water
[00:12:04] flow and improve filtration
[00:12:06] efficiency. The circular economy proposes to reduce
[00:12:10] its impact through better dispersion and at the same
[00:12:13] time recover resources such as magnesium
[00:12:17] and lithium. Technology applied to
[00:12:19] desalination seeks to overcome the great
[00:12:22] historical challenges of these processes. The very
[00:12:25] high energy consumption and the ecological impact
[00:12:28] of brine. Current innovations intervene in
[00:12:32] different phases of the cycle. Let's review some
[00:12:35] alternatives.
[00:12:43] AI to optimize energy.
[00:12:46] It adjusts in real time the pressure and flow of the membranes according
[00:12:50] to the salinity of the water, reducing electricity
[00:12:53] consumption. Selective passage of water
[00:12:56] reducing resistance and the energy needed for
[00:13:00] filtration.
[00:13:03] Marine energy: Wave and tidal
[00:13:07] systems harness waves and tides to
[00:13:11] power pumping and purification, reducing
[00:13:14] carbon emissions.
[00:13:17] Brine: mitigation and valorization.
[00:13:21] High dispersion diffusers reduce their marine impact.
[00:13:25] While valorization processes allow
[00:13:28] minerals such as magnesium
[00:13:30] and lithium to be recovered.
[00:13:33] Biomimetics, biofilters
[00:13:37] of extremophile organisms, seek to separate salt with greater
[00:13:41] efficiency and sustainability.
[00:13:44] Researchers at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester
[00:13:48] in the United States developed a solar
[00:13:50] thermal desalination system that seeks to produce
[00:13:54] fresh water with high energy efficiency and without
[00:13:58] chemical additives for pretreatment. The key
[00:14:01] lies in black metal panels treated with femtosecond
[00:14:04] lasers, whose surface absorbs almost all sunlight,
[00:14:08] attracting a thin layer of water. The sun's
[00:14:11] heat evaporates this water to distill it, while
[00:14:15] salts and minerals remain confined in a passive
[00:14:18] zone of the panel, away from the active area,
[00:14:22] thus preventing salt from clogging the surface
[00:14:25] and facilitating continuous desalination, a technology
[00:14:29] that seeks to make the sun not only a source of energy,
[00:14:32] but also part of the solution to water scarcity.
[00:14:36] Along with these innovations, others have also emerged that
[00:14:40] seek to mitigate the economic impact generated by the
[00:14:43] costs of energy, a product of desalination,
[00:14:46] such as the proposal of so-called green
[00:14:50] desalination, which can be achieved with a microbial
[00:14:53] desalination cell, powered by water.
[00:15:02] The best design for desalination is a
[00:15:05] combination of desalination membrane and
[00:15:08] reverse osmosis, however, before commercialization
[00:15:12] a simulation is required for this new
[00:15:15] design, so we use international
[00:15:19] industrial software which is
[00:15:22] wave and simulates desalination with
[00:15:25] and without desalination membrane, as
[00:15:28] you can see, when a desalination membrane
[00:15:31] is used, the salinity of the desalinated
[00:15:34] water, decreases towards the... desalinated
[00:15:37] water
[00:15:40] and then is completely desalinated in
[00:15:43] reverse osmosis with a very low energy
[00:15:47] consumption.
[00:15:51] On the other hand, the implementation of desalination technologies
[00:15:55] unleashes an inevitable environmental duality,
[00:15:59] a negative impact on marine ecosystems that can be
[00:16:02] counteracted by disruptive innovations and mitigation
[00:16:06] strategies. According to expert technical
[00:16:09] evidence, the main effects and their respective solutions are structured as
[00:16:13] follows:
[00:16:20] greenhouse gas emissions, CO2,
[00:16:23] fossil fuels, their use in desalination
[00:16:27] generates emissions that contribute to climate change
[00:16:30] and acid rain. Nuclear desalination. Its
[00:16:34] operation does not generate direct greenhouse gas
[00:16:38] emissions and has a lower carbon
[00:16:40] footprint than fossil fuel-based options.
[00:16:44] Renewable energies. Solar,
[00:16:46] wind and geothermal, reduce
[00:16:49] CO2 emissions by replacing fossil
[00:16:53] fuels. Brine discharge
[00:16:57] and thermal effects. Its discharge can
[00:17:01] alter marine ecosystems by increasing salinity
[00:17:05] and temperature. Impact on
[00:17:08] biota: the saline plume can affect marine organisms
[00:17:12] depending on the technology
[00:17:14] and the design of the outfall.
[00:17:17] Mitigation: diffusers favor rapid dilution of brine
[00:17:20] in the water: brine mining.
[00:17:24] Recovering lithium and magnesium
[00:17:28] allows the waste to be used and discharges into the
[00:17:31] sea to be reduced.
[00:17:34] Impact on marine biota by suction. Suction
[00:17:38] and filtration can trap and cause the death of
[00:17:41] plankton, fish eggs
[00:17:43] and larvae.
[00:17:46] Mitigation. Screens and monitoring
[00:17:49] reduce fish entrainment and allow operation
[00:17:53] to be adapted to local
[00:17:54] biological cycles. Chemical
[00:17:57] contamination. Biocides
[00:18:00] and antifoulants. Their use can contaminate
[00:18:04] the marine environment. Graphene
[00:18:08] sponges. They remove persistent pollutants from
[00:18:11] water without additional chemicals. Advanced
[00:18:14] membranes. Perforated nanographene and
[00:18:17] MOS2 improve selectivity and could
[00:18:21] reduce the use of chemicals in pretreatment.
[00:18:25] In high salinity environments, osmosis can cause cell
[00:18:29] water loss and compromise the functioning of organisms.
[00:18:33] But halophiles, microorganisms adapted to
[00:18:36] these extreme environments, have developed strategies
[00:18:39] to avoid it. Some produce compatible solutes that help
[00:18:43] balance osmotic pressure, without altering
[00:18:46] their cellular functions. Others use ion pumps
[00:18:49] in their membranes to regulate sodium and maintain
[00:18:53] the balance of essential ions. These natural adaptations
[00:18:56] could inspire new ways to design filters and membranes
[00:19:00] for water desalination, understanding how halophiles
[00:19:04] survive high concentrations of salt, offers clues for
[00:19:07] new filtration technologies. Biomimetics
[00:19:10] seeks to replicate these natural mechanisms
[00:19:13] in synthetic membranes, capable of selectively separating
[00:19:17] water and salts, thus nature becomes a reference
[00:19:20] laboratory for finding more efficient and sustainable
[00:19:24] ways to obtain water from the sea.
[00:19:26] Overcoming
[00:19:31] the limits of traditional reverse osmosis requires
[00:19:34] looking towards the atomic scale. These disruptive
[00:19:37] technologies allow water molecules to flow at an
[00:19:40] unprecedented speed, while selectively blocking
[00:19:44] salt and microscopic contaminants. The result
[00:19:48] is a hyperefficient purification process
[00:19:50] that promises to decentralize access
[00:19:54] to drinking water in vulnerable coastal areas.
[00:19:57] We make a new cut in Atomun, but
[00:20:00] first I invite you to
[00:20:04] travel in the data.
[00:20:13] Reverse osmosis, a purification and desalination
[00:20:16] technology, which reverses the natural process of osmosis
[00:20:19] by pressure. In natural osmosis, water
[00:20:23] passes through a semi-permeable membrane from the zone
[00:20:26] with lower salt concentration to that with higher concentration,
[00:20:30] seeking to balance both sides, while reverse
[00:20:34] osmosis does the opposite, applies a pressure
[00:20:37] higher than osmotic pressure and forces
[00:20:41] water to pass through the membrane from the saline solution to
[00:20:45] the other side. In the process, the membrane retains salts,
[00:20:49] dissolved minerals, bacteria and other contaminants.
[00:20:52] In a world marked by scarcity of drinking water and the depletion
[00:20:56] of fresh sources, this technology allows the use of
[00:20:59] seawater and brackish water to generate water
[00:21:03] resources for consumption, agriculture and industry,
[00:21:06] an increasingly important tool in the face of the challenge
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[00:24:13] of physics and algorithms infiltrating the living
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[00:24:20] radar, we adjust the sensors towards the
[00:24:23] densest enigmas of deep space, the
[00:24:27] countdown reached absolute zero,
[00:24:30] it's time to break the threshold of knowledge,
[00:24:33] activate interstellar propulsion to
[00:24:37] get out of
[00:24:38] orbit.
[00:24:44] NASA has selected Blue Origin to design,
[00:24:47] build and operate the Mars Telecomm.
[00:24:51] a high-capacity communication network that will provide
[00:24:55] data transmission and navigation services to missions
[00:24:58] on the red planet. The company must deliver to NASA no later
[00:25:02] than December 2028 a telecommunications
[00:25:05] orbiter that will be the core of this
[00:25:08] infrastructure. The network is scheduled to enter operations
[00:25:12] on Mars by 2030. Martian exploration is moving
[00:25:16] from isolated robotic missions to an increasingly
[00:25:18] complex scenario with greater data
[00:25:22] needs for future human expeditions,
[00:25:25] the new network will seek to facilitate the sending
[00:25:29] of high-resolution images, scientific data, telemetry
[00:25:33] and other critical information between missions on Mars
[00:25:35] and Earth.
[00:25:39] The plastic we don't see is already in the water, the
[00:25:43] soil and even the air we breathe, these are microplastics,
[00:25:47] almost invisible particles that have
[00:25:50] become a global environmental challenge, but the most difficult
[00:25:54] thing to believe is the answer, robotics and nanotechnology
[00:25:57] have joined forces to create small systems capable
[00:26:01] of helping to clean up these contaminants without
[00:26:05] damaging the ecosystem, how it works and why
[00:26:09] the soil was the great pending frontier,
[00:26:12] let's find out in this week's hard to believe.
[00:26:16] Microrobots
[00:26:22] capable of hunting microplastics, it sounds
[00:26:25] like science fiction, but scientists from the Czech Republic
[00:26:29] have already designed them. These are swarms
[00:26:32] of magnetic microrobots that can
[00:26:35] locate, capture and remove microplastic
[00:26:38] particles in water and complex soils. Their structures,
[00:26:42] made with mazenes and magnetic nickel
[00:26:45] nanoparticles, do not need batteries or
[00:26:48] motors, external rotating magnetic fields
[00:26:52] propel and guide them. The hard part to believe
[00:26:56] is that instead of waiting for the pollutant to reach
[00:26:59] a filter, these microrobots can
[00:27:02] move towards it and actively capture it,
[00:27:06] but there are still no armies of robots cleaning the oceans,
[00:27:10] the results are from the laboratory, there are technical barriers
[00:27:14] to their large-scale use, so researchers are aiming
[00:27:17] at controlled environments such as industrial effluents,
[00:27:21] wastewater treatment plants, confined channels and agricultural
[00:27:24] plots.
[00:27:28] Converting seawater into drinking water can be a response
[00:27:32] to water scarcity, but science still faces
[00:27:36] an uncomfortable question: how far can we innovate
[00:27:40] without transferring the environmental cost to other ecosystems?
[00:27:43] The American specialist Michael
[00:27:46] Kirpazsky warns that when water sources
[00:27:50] are exhausted or contaminated, desalination
[00:27:53] ceases to be a distant option and becomes
[00:27:56] a decision that should be debated. With this question we close
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[00:28:52] what are the consequences and how do they affect
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