WATER
The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Company ™ MARINE POWER AND WATER, INC.Last update 05-06-2009
The amount of water on Earth today is essentially the same as it was 2000 years ago. However, at that time the world population was less than 3% of its current size.
Only 0.3% of Earth’s total fresh water is found as surface water in rivers, lakes, and behind man-made dams.
About 97% of the water on Earth is in the oceans and covers almost 70% of the surface of the globe.
The average American uses 1,500 gallons per day for all purposes, including energy and industry. This is about three times the world’s average.
Of the total earth’s inhabitants today, 1.1 billion lack access to safe drinking water, the availability of which has been reduced by pollution from human waste, industry, and agriculture.
Water and oil are finite commodities – we could live without oil but not without water. The demand for energy drives demand for more water, which in turn drives demand for more energy. It is a never ending cycle and in relation to population growth, water consumption is growing exponentially.
Potable Water
Desalination and water reuse are the only known options to increase the world’s potable water supply beyond that which is available through the hydrologic cycle.
Present day land-based desalination systems are normally driven by electricity that comes from pollution-producing entities using a finite non-renewable carbon resource. The costs of power are enormous, with no end in sight of escalating fuel costs. When estimating the real cost of future fossil fuel powered land-based desalination, the costs of energy are very uncertain.
Zero-carbon Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters (patents pending) have the capability of converting seawater into fresh drinking water through utilization of new modernized desalination technology. It affords us the ability to dynamically reduce the carbon footprint and cost of the desalination of seawater. The option to convert seawater to potable water is now a viable way to augment water use by municipalities without adding additional carbon footprints to the process.
Utilizing our Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters, Marine Power and Water, Inc. could supply potable water to approximately 60% of the population that lives within 50 miles of the seashore, with zero pollution to the world’s atmosphere. This would provide a drought-resistant supply of water and provide a means to diversify a large community's water supply portfolio.
We utilize the most advanced and proven reverse and forward osmosis systems and new micro filtering systems to produce potable water with known capital costs and fixed operating costs. When compared with land-based unit operational costs ours are relatively inexpensive.
Our sources of power to drive the reverse osmosis and water sterilization equipment are environmentally responsible, non-polluting, renewable ocean currents, tidal flows, and wind.
In-stream hydrokinetic energy in free-flowing water represents a huge, overlooked, untapped, powerful, highly concentrated, clean and renewable energy source.
Marine Power and Water, Inc. focused its pioneering efforts in producing pollution-free desalinated water at the industry's lowest possible production cost. With the power to drive the desalination plants and sterilization equipment provided by the Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters with no cost for fuel, the only remaining costs are for capital equipment and operations. This unique and economical innovation will position the Corporation as a premier desalination processor worldwide.
We can produce near-shore emergency and backup supplies of potable water in the event of land-based disasters such as earthquakes, fires, prolonged droughts, eco-habitat mandated flow reductions/cut offs, jurisdictional political water wars, and/or sabotage. Global warming means rising sea levels, and as sea levels rise coastal communities could lose up to 50% or more of their fresh groundwater supplies due to salt water intrusion.
Unlike carbon-powered land-based desalination plants, offshore plants do not have to deal with land use allocation, criteria/site permitting issues, the expenses of purchasing ocean front property, or the ever-escalating expense of ongoing waste pumping operations. In addition, land based plants face the costs of building and placing long undersea outflow pipelines as one-half to two-thirds of the process water used in all reverse osmosis cycles is returned to the sea as concentrated salt water. We simply discharge the wastewater from our unit to the sea.
The significant cost advantage we have when compared to the costs of building and operating land-based desalination plants, is that the costs for our energy converters are minimal and fixed - using a non-polluting renewable energy source that is essentially inexhaustible and free.
After the one-time initial capital costs of the unit, the operations/maintenance costs are all that need to be considered in order to produce fresh, palatable and potable water for sale and generating profit.
Farming/Ranching/Irrigation
Flood Irrigation
Essentially every calorie of food requires a liter of water to produce it. Western diets use about 2,500 to 3,000 calories a day. This equates to 660 to 792 gallons per day per person just for food! Currently, flood irrigation is the method of choice of farmers and ranchers. Based on the amount of water required to produce food, the expense of pumping and conveying this water is enormous.
Irrigation water contains unutilized hydrokinetic energy. The Aquakinetics™ energy converter will exploit this energy and create a paradigm shift in how farmers and ranchers view their water and new water energy applications.
Gone will be the years of paying for the power to pump water in the vast irrigation conveyance systems by utilizing a pollution-free and renewable untapped energy source to produce their own power.
Equipment innovations and advancements in materials’ science, mated with forward-thinking operating procedures will afford farmers/ranchers new profit centers such as:
- Added new economy dynamics and diversity in operating options,
- New low-cost economies for pumping groundwater,
- Opening up of unused lands for new additional agricultural production,
- New economical paths to high-value per acre crops,
- Greater agricultural self-reliance,
- Increased water reuse and efficiency capabilities,
- Greater access to ingenious new irrigation water reclamation/reuse systems,
- Economical rehabilitation of fallow irrigation land due to naturally occurring salt,
- Economical capability of recovering two-thirds of drainage ditch water for reuse,
- Economical method of disposing of salt laden drainage ditch water residue, and
- The opportunity to sell excess power generated by the energy converters back to the grid operator.
Drip Irrigation
Flood irrigation is expensive and leads to significant depletion of nutrients in the soil. It also promotes loss of water from evaporation, which in turn adds to the accumulation of salinity in the soil. Over time, this cycle results in the slow reduction of agricultural production and, eventually, in fallowing of the unproductive land.
The Aquakinetics™ energy converters not only considerably lower the cost of pumping the water, but will, in conjunction with a drip irrigation system:
- Offer better control and utilization of irrigation water,
- Reduce amounts of fertilizer applications and runoff,
- Reduce salinity of the land experienced with flood irrigation,
- Free up approximately 5% more land for production that is normally occupied by irrigation ditches,
- Drastically reduce the amount of water lost to evaporation,
- Make this “lost” (drainage ditch) water available for additional land production, and
- Provide stimulus for a mobile drip system, in lieu of a stationary installation, to cut costs even more.
In unison with modern distributed energy systems, battery technology and wireless monitoring and control systems, farming operations could be controlled remotely rather than by the manpower and travel that flood irrigation now requires.
Special Note of Interest
Water has become a commodity that supports a $400 billion global industry - the third largest, behind electricity and oil.
Special Note of Interest
The Aquakinetics™ energy converters operate extremely well in low-flow and shallow water conditions and are not affected by abrasive particulates or vegetative debris in the water.
