A NATURAL SOLUTION TO THE WATER PROBLEM Saudi Arabia is the world largest users of desalination, with twenty-eight plants supplying 70 percent of the kingdom’s water. In 2009 the world’s largest desalter: the $3.4 billion Shoaiba Desalination Plant in Jubail Industrial City on the Persian Gulf which produces 800,000 cubic meters of water a year became operational. The nation’s desal plants consume 1.5 million barrels of oil per day. The current high continued reliance on fossil fuel for power generation produces large volumes of GHG since a gigawatt hour of electricity using oil produces 700 tons of CO2, using gas produces 450 tons and to generate the same amount of electricity using renewable energy (RE) such as concentrated solar power (CSP) 17 tons of CO2. Desalination is expensive and energy intensive and impacts heavily on the environment. Power plant discharge and concentrated brine flushed into the sea have disastrous impacts on marine life and can destroy aquatic species, particularly those in egg or immature phase. The biggest challenges will be to reduce the cost of energy-intensive desalinated water, reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, and ensure that it becomes an environmentally acceptable solutions by avoiding environmental damage from desalination. Cost can be reduced by improving technology to increase the efficiency of desalination and damage to the environment and the ecosystems can be avoided by adopting a massive water recovery and generation technology, steam distillation. Based upon Mother Nature’s primary purification method, distillation uses evaporation and condensation to separate pure, fresh water from saltwater and contaminants. In nature the process is called the hydrologic cycle. It occurs when water evaporates, condenses then falls to the earth as precipitation. Water will be the driving force of developing economies and water will determine the future not only of the Middle East but the world. The good news is a U.K. company (WATERL’EAU PLC) has come up with Restorative Solutions to a positive climate change-back, effecting climate change in a positive way through application of massive water recovery, generation & reforestation technology by producing inexhaustible forever supply of water for sustainable livelihood and socioeconomic development so as to improve environmental health and well-being. Actions have been taken and wheels are already in motion in their effort to arrest further negative climate change (so deep seated in our mindset as to be deemed irreversible) and to promote the idea that people take up the challenge to evaginate the climatic process with creative thinking and do things ecologically beneficial hands-on in innovative ways. Water will be the driving force for developing economies and the foundation of our economic evolution. Waterleaux is master planning to reforest parts of MENA and terra-forming arid land worldwide into everglades of wetland and floodplain of rich agricultural developments made possible with Massive Water Recovery, Generation and Reforestation and Environmental Restorative Technology that will provide forever supply of water to developing countries worldwide. Desalination, though proven a technically feasible ongoing water supply solution, will increase future energy requirements and take a large share of national energy production. Average annual costs per cubic meter (m3) of fresh water is $1.80 and the current high continued reliance on fossil fuels for power generation produces large volumes of GHG since to generate a gigawatt hour of electricity using oil produces 700 tons of CO2 , using gas produces 450 tons and to generate the same amount of electricity using renewable energy (RE)such as concentrated solar power (CSP) produces 17 tons of CO2. Waterleaux’s massive water recovery, generation & reforestation technology, in cutting through the “middle-man” therefore doing away with the costly need to generate electricity and hence incurring electricity cost of desalination plants, produces zero ton of CO2. Waterleaux desalinators, the first hydro- infrastructure project to be completely carbon neutral, are designed to produce and make available the massive ongoing amount of pure, clean water for municipal, industrial, farming, biotech consumption, and high-tech industries that rely on superclean water for their manufacturing. The process involves drawing in seawater miles inland through glass enclosed aqueducts that heat the inflow of water as it journeys along towards the massive desalinators in the form of huge domes situated in the middle of deserts. As seawater flows in, it is gradually distilled and collected in drains by the sides of the aqueducts and seawater that eventually flows into the cauldrons (lakes) inside the giant dômes is boiled to produce dense steam rising to cause precipitation of tropical rainstorm and cascading downfall of fresh water that is drained out and piped to reservoirs and from these reservoirs to municipal water utilities and everglades of agricultural wetlands. Water is also used to cultivate the thousands hectares of land packed with imported top soils to facilitate reforestation of the desert. The energy generated to super heat the continuous inflow of water and to create a constant water cycle within the domes is the equivalent of up to 20,000 suns produced by focusing concentrated solar radiation from the phalanx of refractive solar concentrators surrounding the domes onto the super conductive steel frame structure.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:10:04 +0000
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