America can meet its sustainable energy goals and provide the sustainable energy needs of the rest of the planet as it mediates the worst projected effect of climate change. Some of the infrastructure required to meet this objective is drilling wells offshore with environmental consequences readily apparent.
Many existing platforms can be converted to producing hydrogen where the success rate for every well would be certain and a hydrogen leak would never contaminate anyone's coastline.
Not only is hydrogen an energy currency, it is also a water currency.
Lighter than air hydrogen will transport itself by buoyancy up a pipeline or chimney from the ocean's depths where it is produced (under pressure) to the highest point in or adjacent a desert where it can be combined with resident oxygen to produce water which will flow naturally to the desert floor to promote photosynthesis.
Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and NASA climate modelers Igor Aleinov and David Rind have outlined a plan similar to the Global Warming Mitigation Method (GWMM) to sow the deserts of the Outback and Sahara in the Journal of Climatic Change..
They conclude irrigating these deserts "probably provides the best, near-term route to complete control of greenhouse gas.
Electrolysis of water produces 1 molecule of oxygen for every 2 of hydrogen and this oxygen can revitalize the growing number of ocean dead zones enabling them to sustain aquatic life which is vital to our own.
The time is ripe for America to use its greatest strength to its benefit as well as the rest of the world.
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