Coastal hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen) is a growing global crisis driven by nutrient pollution and climate change. It creates "dead zones" that suffocate marine life, severely disrupt global food security, and damage multi-billion-dollar commercial fisheries. Damage can include habitat loss and suffocation which include fisheries collapse, disrupted food webs, altered biogeochemistry and ecosystem degradation. See for example: “Ocean Hypoxia: The Science of Climate Change in the Sea” by F. Chan et al. 04 February 2025 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86706-4

Referring to FIG. 1, “SOLUTE ION LINEAR ALIGNMENT (SILA) POWER GENERATION AND FLASH DISTILLATION - DISTILLED WATER + DISSOLVED OXYGEN TO OVERCOME HYPOXIA”, it is proposed to address hypoxia by applying Solute Ion Linear Alignment to heat the seawater to create Only Steam (No H2 and O2) and then use that to operate a Steam Turbine Generator STG and use the condensate from the Condenser as the distilled water feed to the Electrolyzer to create H2 and O2. The STG supplies DC power to the Electrolyzer. A Solute Ion Monopole Motor can also be applied to compensate for any energy deficiency between the steam generation and the electrolyzer requirements.

This should be possible by having a large volume of water as compared to the heat generated by the ion beams in the water, since it requires significantly more thermal energy to separate H2O into H2 and O2. The H2 would combine with O2 from the air either by combustion to provide heat or by a Fuel Cell to generate electricity. In either case,a new supply of H2O is formed which is distilled water. The O2 from the Electrolyzer can then be dissolved in the new supply of H2O and returned to the salt water body that is O2 depleted at night.

As an energy source and method of desalination, SILA can be summarized as follows:

https://contest.techbriefs.com/2014/entries/sustainable-technologies/4465
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2022/entries/sustainable-technologies-future-energy/11706

1 liter of sea water contains about 35 grams of salt or 0.035 kg.

If the SILA ion beams of Na+ and Cl- (for simplicity assume only NaCl is in the sea water) are accelerated to 10E+8 m/sec, neglecting relativistic effects, then the kinetic energy is

K.E.. = 1/2 (mV^2) = 1/2 (0.035 kg)(10E+8 m/sec)^2 =

2 x 10E+14 J or 2 x 10E+8 MJ = 2 x 10E+5 GJ = 2 x 10E+2 TJ

Since it requires about 2.6 MJ to boil 1 liter of water,
theoretically, the 35 grams of salt could boil

2 x 10E+8/2.6 or about 7x 10E+7 liters or 70,000,000 liters (70,000 m3).

APPLYING THE ABOVE RESULTS, THEORETICALLY, 35 GRAMS OF SALT COULD BOIL 70,000 M^3.

(1 CUBIC METER M^3 EQUALS 1 METRIC TON OR 2200 LBS OR 1000 LITERS OF WATER).

Solute ion linear alignment propulsion was presented in ASME ES2010-90396 “Solute Ion Coulomb Force Monopole Motor and Solute Ion Linear Alignment Propulsion”. Solute ion linear alignment (SILA) is a process in which potential energy of the electrostatic fields of like charged solute ions is converted to kinetic energy and is based on the process of capacitive deionization (CDI).

See https://contest.techbriefs.com/2014/entries/sustainable-technologies/4465