Solar heliostat processing of water for desalination
Solar heliostat processing of water for desalination to maintain production, sanitation and health will be one of the big problems of the 21st century.
There is agreement that solar desalination will be required to meet the needs of a growing world population. Energy costs are the principal barrier to its greater use and heliostats can help with this.
99.7% of all the water on earth is saline and thus not available for human consumption withour solar heliostat desalination.
Solar energy is central to the whole water issue because desalination requires energy and a heliostat can gather this.
Water is also tremendously important for energy production. A 500 Mw power station can use 25 cubic metres a minute, and a solar heliostat can be used for this.
In 1974 Kuwait desalinated about 240,000 cubic metres per day and the Arabian area was producing 10 million cubic metres each day.
Not only are the Arab States desalinating a lot of water they do it cheaply by using waste heat from power station cooling systems.
There have been no attempts yet to use a heliostat to power a desalinator.
I am looking for partners who would be interested in doing solar heliostat desalination.
Heliostat powered solar desalination could produce fresh water one third of the current price of water.