China Builds Plant to Harvest Hydrogen, Water and Uranium From Seawater

China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea

Chinese scientists have built a small, stable co-production plant that uses one system to extract hydrogen and fresh water from seawater, while also recovering uranium and bromine and improving electricity use efficiency by about 15 per cent. The team, led by Deng Dehui and Liu Yanting from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, improved on an existing technology that is both costly and power hungry, according to …

China builds plant to harvest hydrogen, water and uranium from seawater

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics improved on existing seawater electrolysis tech, plugging an overlooked energy leak: about 30% of electricity lost as low-quality waste heat at 80–90°C, normally...