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In this article I am responding to the article that states that as long as we use oil to purify our water then oil will be more valuable. It is this opinion that I would like to address for I work in the development of new technologies that use something rather than oil to purify water. One of those is the Plasma Incubator Reactor system that has been developed to purify the water coming from the drilling of natural gas wells in Texas where companies such as Devon Energy is drilling up to 27 new wells every month. They encountered a problem when they started throwing over 100,000 barrels of water down these wells in order to fracture the Barnett Shale which is where the gas is held in that zone. When the gas starts to come back to the surface it forces this water ahead of it and here is the problem. These companies use a chlorine tablet much like the ones you throw into your swimming pool and this combines with the sodium in the ground and produces salt water that is 5 times more salty than the Gulf of Mexico. This technology does not use any carbon based products to purify this water, instead it destroys up to 500 gallons of this water and by doing so it produces free Hydrogen as a gas. Some of this is extracted through a special valve and a vacuum system that transfers this gas to another water filled tank on the back of a flat bed trailer. Here the gas is forced into a 3" by 10" plastic "cork" of sorts and as the gas goes in the cork rises from the bottom of the tank. Attached to the cork under the tank is a rotor that is attached to a rod through the bottom of the tank and this is moving up and down between two permanent stators which makes it a generator. However, this is not like any generator you have ever seen before because the rotor does not rotate, instead it moves up and down 18 times a minute and by doing so in the presence of very strong Permanent Magnets it creates electricity which is collected on a special panel on the side of the trailer and these electric charges are transferred to a transformer which gathers them into usuable electric current and sends them back to the Plasma Reactor and furnishes the power for it to operate. This is a closed loop system and depending on how much electricity is needed determines how many trailer mounted water filled tanks are placed into play at the site.

This is technology that you can hang your hat on when it comes to producing energy without using a petroleum product. Devon Energy has contracted to use one of these units on each of its 27 natural gas drilling rigs running around Texas and punching holes so that we can have more natural gas for the east coast to use in winter.

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