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The Environmental Effects of the Plasma Incubator Reactor Desalination System when applied to the Sea of Cortez to the Salton Sea Desalination and shipping channel project of Southern California.
Prepared and Presented for Publication by Director of Research at Cal-Neva Water Quality Research Institute of California

SCOPING THE CHANNEL

This article is to scope the Channel Project, as recently proposed.

Scoping:
To scope a proposed project is to, preliminarily, identify and consider what impacts (negative and positive) it may have upon the environment. Scoping is, by no means, either an exhaustive study or a complete list of potential impacts.

The Channel Project:
The Channel is a proposed project, a canal actually, proposed to be built from the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, to, and as far as, Palm Springs, California. It is called a channel, instead of a canal, because that is the legal definition for such a project.

Purposes of the Channel
The Channel was initially proposed as a military project, throughout the 20's and 30's. This proposal has never been abandoned for all of the U.S. Naval Reserves, along the original route, still exist. In 1968 it was proposed, primarily, as a transportation, (a shipping), corridor. In 2001, yet another purpose was proposed; to provide seawater to the Salton Sea. In that proposal, seawater was to replace fresh water, distributed from the Colorado River, and the replaced fresh water was to be redirected to other more beneficial uses; other than to stabilize the level of the Salton Sea. More recently, though, on August 18, 2005, the National Outdoor Recreation Council, (NORC), proposed several more purposes; large scale - desalination, power generation, and environmental restoration. These additions were made possible because of new and revolutionary desalination process that allows seawater to be utilized to produce first, fresh potable water. This is accomplished in an enclave or closed and pressurized container. The destruction of a water molecule produces at least two prominent gases, these are Oxygen, which is the heavier of the two, and Hydrogen, which is the lightest, and rises to the top of the enclave. From there a special extraction process removes a continuous flow of Hydrogen. This is pumped through a network of tubes to a second container where another new technology known as the Bubble Gen Electric Generation system produces electricity with the help of a new Permanent Magnet that was developed in Europe and is ten times

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