A plant and process for efficient production of low deuterium water from
seawater. The plant includes a solar still with a black pan for
collecting solar heat, that vaporizes portions of the seawater and a
porous sloped membrane positioned over the black pan to collect and
condense the vapor and to direct the condensate via gravity to a
condensate tank. The condensate water is separated into its atomic
components, hydrogen and oxygen, in an electralizer; then the hydrogen
and oxygen are combined in a reactor to produce heat and low deuterium
water. In preferred embodiments the reactor is a fuel cell which in
addition to the heat and water also produces electricity. At least a
portion of the heat produced in the reactor is used in the solar still to
assist in the vaporization of the seawater and to greatly increase the
efficiency of the still.