Desalinized Water

The need to develop high-throughput energy-efficient Desalinization Plants is mandatory and is the keystone to this entire proposal.  This entire blueprint for addressing the effects of the global rise in temperatures hinges on the accomplishment of this one engineering impediment being hurdled.  Current technologies do not provide a ‘Zero Footprint’ Desalinization Plant ecologically. The current throughput rates are not high enough to address our needs as a global society.  If an entrepreneur or company were to put a financial challenge out for a winning engineering design that would address these operational deficiencies then I believe that we would receive a viable solution.

The requirement is to provide all of our water usage from desalinization methods with water taken from the oceans.  Therefore Desalinization Plants will need to be built on every continent except Antarctica.  However, in order to avoid having to build a considerable number of Desalinization Plants, the induction volume throughput issue must be solved and is critical.

Opposition to the establishment of Desalinization Plants has been centered on the negative impact on the marine environment.  The environmental issue regarding the induction of plankton and krill by Desalinization Plants has been raised, thereby creating a harmful effect on the oceanic food chain.  The solution is simple.  We have a perfect example of a filtration mechanism for plankton and krill … the baleen of the whale species.  If we design a filter that emulates the functionality of the baleen then we have solved that issue.  However, the filter(s) could block the induction ports for the plant once fully packed with plankton and krill.  Why not design it so that the filter operates like a rolling screen with a water jet to ‘rinse’ the plankton and krill off of the filter after it has passed over the induction port opening.  I’m not an engineer but I never see problem without a solution.  I’m quite sure there’s an engineer that could come up with a better design.  I mention it here merely to say that there are those that would argue to block the construction of these Desalinization Plants.  I care about the environment tremendously but we are in a fight for our mere existence.  There is no other option for us if we hope to possibly keep the oceanic sea levels at the level that they are presently.

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