Are there any large investments being made to desalinate ocean water and turn the purified water into hydrogen fuel like NASA’s plan to do with lunar ice water? eli5

Question

Are there any large investments being made to desalinate ocean water and turn the purified water into hydrogen fuel like NASA’s plan to do with lunar ice water? eli5

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Answer 1

Both desalination and hydrogen production are an energy problem not an engineering one. Every company or lab working on reducing energy costs are in a way working on these technologies, because with plentiful, cheap energy it becomes commercially viable.