> The article also doesn't say if it produces more power than the attached desalination plant requires. I doubt it as you'd be getting close to a perpetual moti

> The article also doesn't say if it produces more power than the attached desalination plant requires. I doubt it as you'd be getting close to a perpetual motion machine if so. Not really. Even if it would generate enough to power the plant, it would still rely on work being done outside of the plant, i.e. the flow of semi-treated waste-water and possibly the brine itself.