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Japan recently opened its first power plant to run on osmotic power, which uses the natural process of osmosis to produce electricity. The first operational osmotic power plant opened in Denmark a couple of years ago, and some see this so-called “blue energy” as another sustainable source of power. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler learned more from Bruce Logan, a professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State.