Chapter Five: Water and Hydrogen

Adding Things Together

With municipally integrated renewables doing their part to power cities and reduce the energy demand they place on regional electric grids, employing the baseload electricity generation and excess heat energy of LFTRs to both desalinate seawater and extract hydrogen becomes a routine deliverable of the framework. Yet that merely reflects only the products of this approach – its underlying strategic value is itself a step further. As we’ve discussed previously, a key component of Scarcity Zero is the intention to deploy energy technologies strategically so that they can work together as a team to become greater than the sum of their parts in operation.

The next stage of this goal comes through conceptual “CHP Plants” – (Combined Heat and Power) – which are modular arrays of the technologies thus-far discussed that can be installed rapidly in varied configurations for specific applications. As we’ll see later in this writing, these applications might include atmospheric scrubbing of greenhouse gasses, waste processing and recycling, large-scale ocean cleanup or supplemental energy and resource production. Yet they each would deliver their intended goals as a system that’s standardized and cogenerative in design, enabling turnkey deployment of energy generation and resource production to solve most any problem caused by the absence of either.