Harnessing Clean Water from Power Plant Emissions

[mr_lebowski]

1. Not that I'm reading all that, but I appreciate the scholarly/practical angle you bring to DU ...

I've grave doubts, as you do, about the overall viability of 'renewable' energy sources ... specifically in terms of their having any practical chance of significantly reducing humanity's overall consumption of carbon-based fuels.

I should add that I decidedly favor the 'reflector' type of operation to the PV method for large scale energy production facilities that are fueled by sunlight. Seems like it'd be a much 'lower carbon footprint' method, and also one not reliant on imported rare-earth elements, which is not trivial. Maintaining 'mirrors' and a 'turbine' (to use simple terms for the tech) would seem a whole simpler and lower-impact than maintaining PV cells.

Furthermore, as you do, I believe it's silly to be decommissioning our (or the worlds) Nuclear Power facilities during this carbon crisis. I absolutely think nuclear power needs to be not only a part of our mix, but in fact a significantly LARGER % than it is now.

If science can efficiently produce clean water as a 'waste product' of generating nuclear power, that would be friggin' HUGE.