Comments on: Gold from the Sea? (Jun, 1934) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/08/31/gold-from-the-sea/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Earl Moreo http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/08/31/gold-from-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-1075749 Earl Moreo Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:14:44 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=5239#comment-1075749 Imagine a Terawatt power station at the North end of the Salton Sea, with a channel to the Salton Sea from the Sea of Cortez. That Terawatt power station needs to sink enough heat from generating electricity to boil nine cubic miles of Sea water a year. As an added benefit, most of the water would rain out on the mountain ranges to the east over time. Set the feed channels to the power station up properly and over time you could make the salton Sea safe for life again. You put a control valve at the North end of the channel and set the level of the Salton Sea wherever you want it. Keep it where it is now and you get 200 feet of hydraulic head to generate more electricity. At the power station you run the increasingly concentrated brine through a series of precipitation pools, and if you want to sort the chemical elements further, (science fiction at this point) you run a current through the ponds and process whatever plates out or bubbles off the anode and cathode. Imagine a Terawatt power station at the North end of the Salton Sea, with a channel to the Salton Sea from the Sea of Cortez. That Terawatt power station needs to sink enough heat from generating electricity to boil nine cubic miles of Sea water a year. As an added benefit, most of the water would rain out on the mountain ranges to the east over time. Set the feed channels to the power station up properly and over time you could make the salton Sea safe for life again. You put a control valve at the North end of the channel and set the level of the Salton Sea wherever you want it. Keep it where it is now and you get 200 feet of hydraulic head to generate more electricity.

At the power station you run the increasingly concentrated brine through a series of precipitation pools, and if you want to sort the chemical elements further, (science fiction at this point) you run a current through the ponds and process whatever plates out or bubbles off the anode and cathode.

]]> By: Michael Dunn http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/08/31/gold-from-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-1064800 Michael Dunn Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:05:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=5239#comment-1064800 The Chlorine replaces the Bromine in Sodium Bromide, turning it into Sodium Chloride - natural sea salt. The Bromine is harvested as described. What happens to the Sulphuric Acid? It is probably left in the sea water returned to the ocean! The Chlorine replaces the Bromine in Sodium Bromide, turning it into Sodium Chloride – natural sea salt. The Bromine is harvested as described.

What happens to the Sulphuric Acid? It is probably left in the sea water returned to the ocean!

]]> By: JM http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/08/31/gold-from-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-1063072 JM Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:28:36 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=5239#comment-1063072 And what happened with all the water with its high content of sulphuric acid and chlorine??... That's the part they forgotten to ask?? I wondered if all that sulphuric acid and chlorine are still mixed in the water til today. And what happened with all the water with its high content of sulphuric acid and chlorine??… That’s the part they forgotten to ask?? I wondered if all that sulphuric acid and chlorine are still mixed in the water til today.

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