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China builds plant extracting hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from seawater
Original: China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea
China has developed a plant capable of extracting hydrogen, fresh water and uranium directly from seawater, according to the South China Morning Post. If scaled up, the technology could provide clean fuel, drinking water and nuclear reactor material from the ocean, and observers are weighing both its strategic energy implications and how practical large-scale deployment would be.
Why now: The combination of hydrogen, freshwater and uranium extraction touches on energy security, water scarcity and nuclear fuel supply at once.
Evidence
- China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea · South China Morning Post
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