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The ship idea sounds interesting, but no mention what power source is used for desalination and what environmental (C02) etc. impact it produces.

Mark D. Birnbaum, Life Member, IEEE

Enron fleeced its shareholders and now they want to fleece poor people and dump their crap in the oceans. This is beneath IEEE.

I have not heard what the impact will be on the local sea environment. When you talk about the amount of water (long term) that a ship will be processing, what will be the effects on the local sea environment? I suspect that it will be the equivalent of air pollution to the local sea life. Around the shoreline (I believe depth determines it) much of the sea life propagates. What effect would this process have on reefs and plankton? Could it make a local environment where something equivalent to a red tide take place? I believe that there is a lot of money to be made with this business model, but there is also the possibility that a lot of unknown (at this point) damage could result. I wonder what the liability to the company would be if a country blamed a local die-off of sea life on the ship's activity. I believe that there needs to be some research conducted before risking our ocean resources.