Sustainable water and energy solution.

Admittedly, I need to perform more research on this, but from an initial review, it at least _seems_ viable.

In Outdoor Adventure Programming course yesterday, we had a speaker focusing on LNT (Leave No Trace). We were each given an online article on a topic related to the environment (trash island in the ocean, water running out, etc.). Our group was given the one about drinkable/usable water shortages around the world. I supplemented that with hopping online and getting additional information on India's 1,500 deaths per day due to contaminated water, and their proposed solution to use Hydrogen Fuel cells to generate clean drinknig water. I found this when looking up info I had heard on the Science Channel relating to the plans to try to create water for the moon base project, by shipping up hydrogen to the moon, and then using solar energy to mix the elements (O2) in the Lunar soil with the Hydrogen to create water.

So, my proposal, seemingly totally discounted by the other students in the class, is as follows (and I'm wondering if anyone has done enough research to point out any major components I'm missing in this chain, please do speak up):

Use Nuclear power using Helium pebble-based modular system to generate electricity.

Use the Helium from these plants to generate clean Hydrogen (So don't use up/contaminate water).

Use some of the system energy to combine Hydrogen and Oxygen to create clean usable water.

Store any "overage" of power generation during off-peak hours in Hydrogen fuel cells for future heavier demand times.

Switch all cars to Electric systems, charge from grid now Nuclear powered, while allowing people to have solar and wind stations at home to charge "off-grid" and use the solar skins on cars to charge when sitting in the parking lots on hot days to charge then as well.

The only part I need more information on is the disposal of the nuclear waste. There are several discussions on this in the references, but I haven't had time to delve further. Some (expensive for now) systems can recycle (but none of them are in the US) the waste, others "just bury it" (I don't consider that a good long term option), but I swear I've read of neutralization techniques that just need more economy of scale to be more effective, though the recycling option too might be a good way to go too, we just need that built closer to home than Europe and Russia.

This chain of solutions addresses the following:

Clean water supply
Getting off dependency on foreign petroleum supply
Localized pollution from coal systems
Highly demand scalable and multi-use in a small foot print (unlike large banks of solar or wind)
Much safer than the current coal plants system

Of course, Fusion-based reactors would be even better in addressing the waste issue, but I'm focusing on currently existing technologies, we could implement immediately.

Thoughts or comments?

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