This power generating facility looks good. It’s a system where salt water is used to generate electrickery. Not a lot but it is something.
However, coupled with the facility to convert salt water to fresh water we could use this power to to make our water conversion facilities completely self contained and actually running green.
Imagine taking an oil tanker, soon to be obsolete, outfitting it with the osmosis technology, replacing the diesel engines with electric ones and fitting some sophisticated computerisation. Then simply allow it to follow a pre-programmed course through the oceans trawling them under it’s own power. Sucking in sea water and storing the resultant fresh water in it’s vast tanks. Then coming home and offloading this fresh water before setting out again.
We could solve a lot of problems in the third world by having self contained power plants like this on the beach sucking in salt water, converting it to fresh and irrigating the land using the power generated to power the pumps.
The beauty of this over solar power, although solar could do this too, is that it will work anywhere in the world, even the UK, and there is no need to store any energy for overnight.
From sailing days, I know that osmosis is a very slow process.
Thats why the boats trawl the ocean until they are full. I’m sure that it is quicker than being filtered by rock and you never know, someone might come out with a new method that is quicker and easier.