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  • Another startup claiming a breakthrough on old tech. This isn’t anything new, and barely an improvement on elctrolyzers from the 50’s.

    The same problem exists with this as any other seawater extraction process: there will be byproducts that need to be disposed of. Desalinization creates a toxic brine, and this process will create a solution of seawater minus character components. This process takes seawater and removes Magnesium Chloride, keeps it in a molten state, then removes the magnesium. So you’re left with Magnesium, Magnesium Oxide as the useful byproducts, BUT…also Mercury, Lead, Sulphurous waste…etc.

    While they say they intend to run “net-zero emissions”, I believe they are strictly speaking about the energy needed to run the machines, NOT the toxic byproducts that are left behind. Desalinization projects all over the world have cause ecological disasters in their attempts to manage and deal with the waste products leftover, and this will be no different unless they also plan to process every seawater component down to its component form and use or sequester that…somehow.
























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