Compared to the concepts we have looked at so far, where H2, for example, has to be purchased at great expense from countries such as the Gulf States and then landed here at a not exactly cheap price, our own concept involves a one-off, manageable investment (which may already have been precisely calculated by the respective grid operators) and requires comparatively low maintenance costs. After that, these costs are only incurred for decades, so that H₂O and H2 are essentially provided at zero cost.
This sets new standards that all known concepts cannot even begin to match. This means that their investments will be wasted before the first cubic metre of H2 has flowed through the planned pipelines. Not to mention the concepts that still need a pipeline just to transport H2. That would be a project with a denominator of unknown size. A project limited to the transport of H2 will hardly be competitive, as it excludes the possibility of producing and transporting clean water at the same time. Moreover, such systems occupy large areas near the sea, the most valuable areas that should be reserved for fishing villages and recreation.
Since our design can both distil seawater conventionally and vaporise it using negative pressure, the range is enormous: from filling a small reservoir to the largest of its kind. Mind you, per day. And, depending on the design, over a distance of around 1000 kilometres, which also means that water in any form can be pumped and distributed over this distance. This means that water can be pumped and distributed in any form along the route. This in turn is likely to turn the expected resistance from the respective neighbours into approval or even enthusiasm. Even without much pressure from the state executive, this would accelerate such projects by decades.
Since distance is no longer an issue and every metre can be used to generate energy, sites for seawater extraction can be chosen on purely environmental grounds. This is something that is not even remotely considered in the plans I have seen. Just as has already happened with waste disposal. The environmental destruction that is often imposed on other countries in order to extract their coveted raw materials is part of a cynical way of doing business that makes the new battery-powered technologies possible in the first place.
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