How this seawater desalination technology will change the world

Water. Without it, the life of a plant, an animal, or a person is inconceivable. Ironically, despite the huge volumes of water on the planet, access to freshwater is becoming increasingly difficult every year. Partly, desalination plants are designed to solve this problem, but existing plants pollute nature and consume too much electricity. And only recently has a new technology of seawater desalination emerged that can change the world.

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[abdullahqureshi]

Solar concentrators-> steam -> turn turbines -> electricity -> condensed water -> household use.

[DavidElzeitsinfill]

One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.

The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10, 000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.

Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.

[MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

No matter the cost there is no real alternative. Beverage companies, including beer, soda, and water bottlers all use desalinization. I'm sure some people argued against tax dollars being spent on highways 100 years ago. The world needs clean drinkable and washable water!

[americanoutside]

Thorium and Solar ponds would solve a lot of issues in arrid regions. The world needs to come together for the benefit of all humanity, not just for a few. Somethings should always be free.

[philipshane]

It isn't new technology, it was invented in the 1950's.

[EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

NEOM should use the seawater directly as well - use it for evaporative cooling instead of the fresh water..
Either to cool public places and homes, or to cool and humidify shade-houses, to reduce the amount of fresh water needed to grow local vegetables etc
Salts can be harvested from these systems too

[charliedevine]

Solar thermal desalination has been done on a small scale with parabolic troughs and heat exchangers in California's Central Valley. I don't see how the dome improves upon that system.

[amtech]

Great invention for humanity and life.

[GizmoFromPizmo]

To build a desalination plant located in the desert that uses electricity is the epitome of standard corporate blockheadedness. With thousand degree temperatures all year long, some genius decided that an electric furnace would be a good idea and was able to sell the idea to investors (i.e. government). The lack of creative thinking at the corporate level is only exceeded by the numbskulledness of government bureaucracy.

[MS-knoj]

Collection of stock footage, combined with comments praising a project that is a clear waste of resources. Based on prior art, there are far more efficient technologies available to desalinate sea water and then they could easily be combined with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic power as electricity source for a reverse osmosis plant or thermosolar power as primary heat source of a multi stage flash desalination unit.

[mohebalikalani]

Hello, thank you for your explanation when several countries in the world seasonal air temperature and water is above 35
degrees we can use this condition to produce electricity and pure water and other products that I mention my profile.

[swrtsolutionsinc.]

irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching
Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates.
This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.

[faisal]

Saudi have technology to turn brine to minerals "lithium, mg, sodium, pb etc", and they're on process to implement the technology in all the destinations plants.

[robertmiller]

Why is this taking so long? Heaps of sunshine hours and close to seawater! You could add in some tidal power as well and create a Pump Hydro system as well so that you can generate power at night-time. OK it might be Capital Intensive to set up on scale but wow! Why weren't we already doing this?

[thomas]

why not use the discarded heat from power plants for desalination

[ahmedzakikhan]

Good. Why can't we take the water from the great floods that is about to come and drink water from it ?

[Nawaf-]

Amazing technology and development in Saudi Arabia! Great video! 👏

[anneeq]

I don't understand why humanity hasn't made great effort to desalinate sea water and mirrors and glass had been so under utilised to try and boil water. Greenhouses have been around for a long while as well so it's a surprise nobody ever tried to harness the power of glass in harnessing the sun's power

[abrahamsatinger]

Is it possible to use geothermal energy, which is a passive way to get freshwater and energy as well? Look to Iceland or Greenland?

[muhammedshan]

Nice Video. I am working in CGGC at the Umm Al Quwain Desalination Plant.