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

China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea
South China Morning Post Monday 05 October 2026, 04:00 UTC By Zhang Tong 1 min read
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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 a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature...

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 a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature... [Image text:] 250 250 kW Equipment for Co-production of Hydrogen and Fresh Wate DICP
China (LOCATION) Chinese (ORG) Deng Dehui (PERSON) Liu Yanting (PERSON) the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (ORG)
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