Characteristics

Basically, aquafacture is a process that uses a dedicated grid of solar-generated electricity and seawater to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen is then pumped up to a nearby mountaintop to a cluster of 5 or more power plants using Advanced Hydrogen Turbines (currently under development) that do not require fuel cells. The hydrogen is burned and its byproduct –pure water- is captured and condensed. The water is then pressurized and piped down using gravity exclusively to a series of terraced hydroelectric plants on the same mountain. Dams are unnecessary. Thus, the electricity generated by these additional hydro plants using the same manufactured water consecutively would not only recover the energy loss inherent in producing the hydrogen, together they would actually generate a surplus of energy proportional to the number of hydro generators and the volume of manufactured water.

Requirements

1) One natural below-sea-level depression in a desert near an ocean or mountains close to an ocean.

2) A sea-level canal to fill the depression by gravity.

3) Numerous dry lake beds near the depression adjacent to or surrounded by suitable mountains, to expand the system.

4) Absence of war or the threat of war.

Advantages

Unlike coal, a solid, aquafacture’s raw materials –seawater, solar energy and gravity- require no mining. Hydrogen can be transported by pipelines or tankers, depending on the destination. The process generates enough electricity and water to support an entire new economy anywhere regardless of drought. For the first time in recorded history, humans would be able to use renewable energy exclusively to “grow” their own water  anywhere and to make a profit from it.