Desal Watercraft Carrier
desalinates at sea or port.
Another closet idea by
John
Zulaikha
1-16 Nov 2005
The drought affecting
lifestyle change is on the march. The solution is water and Sydney
Water is under enormous pressure to deliver. The solution is a
desalination plant at Kurnell. My idea is to make it portable
as on a boat so it becomes a more valuable resource later. Any green
benefits are a plus.
As Climate Change moves across the
planet, the rain misses
traditional catchment targets. The job requires a portable desalination
plant.
Suggesting a portable desalination plant requires a plan.
The Desal Watercraft
Carrier is, but is not limited to, a large scale 3 or more tiered portable floating collector of wind
wave tide and solar energies with battery and reverse osmosis desalination plant on-board. Gathering power, storing power and making
water for
cities.
One day it might be able to roam
the seas searching for the best possible weather conditions gathering
the full potential, but typically it would be moored off the coast
exchanging
eco energy for fresh water, re-charging, and pumping fresh water back
to the coast
through a
pipe.
Sustainability at this stage costs
a little extra but is considered cheaper in the long environmental
run.
The management of waste in a
renewable cycle is less - there is likely to be little waste because
that's what renewable is, the fuel re-news itself. The sun is the best
example, we can use it over again
and again.
It is a direct saving not to have
waste
to clean up or fuel to find.
SYNERGY ENERGY
RECOVERY
The massive
energy and cost figures is not my expertise but the common thread of
new "component parts"
is efficiently utilising the waste energy
at each stage. The breaking action in an electric car is stored in a
battery and
re-used to accelerate. The up and down action on the waves creates a
vacuum in the air tight pressure piston pump.
Sourcing energy from all
4
directions at once, solar wind wave and tide - is a
broader energy spectrum. Is manouverable and can seek best position
much as any sailing ship
turns to the wind. Only a sea worthy craft
can experience all 4, tide wave wind and solar exposures. Managing
waste energy by improving efficiency with clever ideas.
The efficiency of a floating
desalination plant requires the other
energy hungry
components to compliment the 97% efficient PX Pressure Exchanger and
the VRB Redox
Flow Cell, an 80-90%
re-chargeable scaleable non-toxic renewable battery. The Solar Sailor
wings saves
some 50% comparative fuel costs. These devices each save energy, they
are tools of
sustainability. A synergy focus of energy recovery
will make it cost efficient.
The energy that is
needed to sustain this comes at a higher cost, but the ongoing fuel
costs are NIL since we're using
renewables, and there is no clean up cost or waste removal or waste
disposal and far less greenhouse gas.
Figuratively speaking, Desal
can
leave on the
tide and return with a full re-charge and load
of fresh water on the next - without actually leaving the
mooring.
The futuristic
ability to seek out the best spots is
critical to returning with a full load, and like fishing there's a
catch - but with
computers and satelites we can follow in the un-maned footsteps of
hurricanes.
We could remote-control and literally catch enough storm to charge the
energy systems on-board.
To save on costs todays
would be stationary requiring a team of
tug-boats to get around. After all, the job is a portable desalination
plant.
Desal has certain
advantages:
- Charge
the battery over night -
first time only.
- Battery
accounts for mobility and
travel distance from home.
- Daily
routine governed by the
tide wave wind and sun direction.
- Able
to desal at Port.
- Able
to desal at Sea.
- Seeking
and Tracking - locate and
find optimum 24 hour day wind wave solar resource.
- Massive
- able to withstand storms
and/or relocate.
- Massive
- able to charge all
systems within storms and return home.
- Energy
Collector - gather energy
from multiple wave wind tide and solar
sources.
- Battery
Storage - save
the energy in electrolytic and hydro tanks for
later recovery.
- Sea
Water Desalination - on-board
desalination.
- Water
Storage - on-board water
storage.
- Electrolytic
Storage - on-board
battery
storage.
- Return
to Base - when all systems are charged.
- Discharge
fresh
water - energy hydro recovery.
- This
hydro energy saved could pump
fresh water into the city water system.
- Conversely
the
U-pressure equilibrium pump-tide-leveler could.
- Portable
- can sail to next
destination.
-
It's not in my
backyard.
Managing
waste energy by improving
efficiency with clever ideas.
A synergy focus of energy recovery
will make it cost efficient.
And certain
perceived
disadvantages:
- Too
expensive.
- Too
much trouble to go through
just to make water... but I'll wait for
the energy figures verses cost.
