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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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

Those seem like two separate processes which don’t need to be combined.

Look up ‘green hydrogen’ to find water being turned into hydrogen or amonia. Also new technology is enabling natural gas power plants to burn a % of hydrogen or amonia along with natural gas.

Desalination is its own thing and very power intensive.