Werd for science.
Desalinization in those plants and on boats isn't an isochronous procedure- the primary reason for the boats to get tapped out on that so easily is because they don't have the luxury of large water towers to provide them peak usage water.
I'm not even remotely suggesting that if we all got together in Oman and flushed the toilets simultaneously that we couldn't tap out the infrastructure, I'm just saying that if water was a viable source of fuel because of these under-the-hood converters (I think I made my stance on them very, very visible in previous posts
) it wouldn't be that hard to provide it because it doesn't need to be potable, it just needs to be silt free.
Existing infrastructure wouldn't be able to support it, of course.
You shouldn't have used pounds period because it's a unit of force, not a unit of mass.
The Imperial system is embraced because we have so much infrastructure based on it, we're brainwashed to use it, and our distance measurements can be broken down into its constituent parts EVENLY into 1/3's and 1/4's.