Day 31 – Patmos
Patmos suffers from water shortage and relies on imports from the mainland and other islands. Whilst the focus needs to be on managing as well as meeting demand, the island may in the not-too-distant future benefit from zero-carbon desalination. A floating, autonomous desalination unit, powered solely by wind energy is being trialled by a start-up company that emerged from a research project at a Greek university and is now seeking partners for “scaling up” and commercial deployment of the technology.
Being the weekend research opportunities are a little limited, so we swap bikes for a moped and explore north part of the island, returning to Grikos late in the afternoon to collect our belongings. We spend the evening in Skala, blogging on the beach, followed by dinner and drinks, all the while watching the clock slowly tick towards 0155.
