Week 7

This week a new problem arose that we found essential to include in our final solutions. How was the habitat going to receive energy? For this we looked at the processes that were already going to occur in the habitat. We found that since we would be splitting molecules of water in hydrolysis, we could receive a large amount of energy from reuniting the hydrogen and oxygen. Also we would be creating freshwater and putting it into a flow of salt water. This combination can also create energy due to the water moving along the salt concentration gradient. This process is called pressure retarded osmosis and is actually being used at a few energy plants around the world. Attached is a video explaining the process.