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The Third in a Series of Articles on the Sea of Cortez to Salton Sea Shipping Channel

PROFIT POTENTIAL OF THE CHANNEL
December 31, 2007

The first thing people ask us about the Channel is; how much; that is, how much will it cost? They ask this because they cannot comprehend how the production of water could be profitable. That's because the production of water has always been subsidized. The Channel, however, would be a profitable venture. As with any profitable venture, the appropriate question should be, instead; just how much money will it make?

The most recent version of the Channel was proposed by the National Outdoor Recreation Council, (NORC), on August 18, 2005, in the Press Enterprise, Desert Edition. It is a canal, actually, to be built from the Sea of Cortex, Mexico, to, and as far north as, Palm Springs, California. We call it the "Channel", instead of the "Canal", because that is how it is legally coached.
NORC is a non-profit corporation, so obscure and so unknown, that no one really took them seriously, in the beginning.
Every aspect of the Channel will be profitable. The short list is; Desalination; Hydrogen Gas production, Electricity production; land development; shipping; manufacturing; mining; recreation; and, gaming. We will estimate a few. Take heed; these estimates were very shoddily done. They weren't meant for rocket scientists to dissect.

Profit Potential from the Sale of Channel Desalinated Water Using the Plasma Incubator Reactor System
Utilizing the Plasma Incubator Reactor System, the Channel is estimated to produce as much as 300 million acre feet (maf) of desalinated fresh water, per year, from the desalination of 306 maf of seawater. Less is probable. More is possible. Never-the-less, 300 maf/yr is the figure we based our estimates upon.
For this estimate, we make eight other assumptions: (1) that, the sales of water will pay for all of the cost of infrastructure of the Channel, including all its ports, etc.; (2) that, the sales of water will pay for all the cost of desalination facilities; including all its distribution networks; (3) that, the sales of water will pay for all the cost of electric generation facilities, including all its distribution networks; (4) that, given the choice, the end consumer will pay as much, for water, as they are paying today; (5) that, the real and total, unsubsidized, cost of water, today, is, on average, approximately $3000/ac ft.; (6) that, the predominant, ongoing, cost of producing this

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