Orbital methods, a ‘clean-tech’ startup out of Sweden, has raised £15 million in series B funding. the corporate’s founder and CEO Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed new re-purification technology, in collaboration with NASA, that significantly reduces the quantity of water and vitality used when taking a shower. the identical expertise can be used to save water in other home eventualities.
Dubbed “OAS,” Orbital methods’ futuristic bathe, which can either be offered as a retro-fit choice or a model new set up, works with the aid of essentially recycling bathe water in a closed loop. The suave bit, however, is the filter tech that ensures bacteria and other ‘dangerous’ parts present in water coming off your physique is eliminated in each cycle and that if the water is deemed too contaminated, it’s discarded altogether. the result is that the corporate claims OAS consumes best 5 litres of water compared to up to 150 for a 15 minute bathe.
In a call with Mahdjoubi, he explained that all the way through a customary bathe, only a few minutes are spent flushing cleaning soap suds and shampoo down the drain. the remainder of time the water is rather a lot clearer. The tech he has developed is ready to sense the 2 situations and filter or discard as a result.
however, there may be some other main advantage to recycling every shower’s water: huge financial savings in energy. That’s as a result of, says the Orbital methods founder, the temperature of shower water frequently only loses a couple of degrees from bathe head to empty. by means of the usage of digital technology and for the reason that water is recycled in a loop, the OAS handiest needs to deliver it back as much as temperature quite than heating the water from scratch.
In a pleasant piece of sentiment, Mahdjoubi says that instruments, comparable to water and power, are extremely scarce on a space mission however will have to be handled as equally precious on this planet. His firm’s mission goes past applying the tech to showers and Mahdjoubi hinted at future merchandise for the home (a washing machine, in all probability?). If showering was once the only use-case to be commercially rolled out, Orbital techniques may have failed, he says.
in the meantime, the startup’s sequence B backers include Skype founder Niklas Zennström, who has once once more invested in a non-public capacity. also collaborating are Karl-Johan Persson (CEO of H&M), af Jochnick household (founding family of worldwide make-up model Oriflame), Stena Ventures, and Nils Idoff.
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