Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And why Spacebuilt, this company, is here is because we can bring the price of construction in space down 10x, and that will start opening up business cases for all of these technologies to be able to benefit mankind on Earth and do these things. But it's not just electricity for these data centers, for example. It's water. When a data center goes to some place, it needs water to cool.
because the heat is what kills those data centers more so than anything else. And it needs electricity to power it, and it needs water to cool it. And they're stealing from the drinking water that is insufficient in these places already. So this is one reason Genesis Systems, the first company I was part of when I first got out of the military, and Spacebuilt, the second company, are linked.
Because water and energy, are what bring prosperity, health, and security to all people on the planet. And if we can tap into the unlimited source of water in the atmosphere, how much water is in the atmosphere, and the hydraulic cycle where the more water you pull out of the air, the quicker the water is evaporated out of the ocean, the engine of our water system.
And the perfect sustainability of our water cycle gives us an infinite source of water where we don't have to pollute our wells, our aquifers, and you can have an abundant source of clean water. And when you have clean water in Africa, and where I grew up, clean water was the most important problem. 50% of the deaths and illnesses across the globe are a result of dirty water or bad water.
And even in places like India, where the kids are forced to bathe in dirty rivers and drink dirty water, they have health issues their entire life that make them sick and ill and suffer until the day they die. The life expectancy where I grew up is in the 30s, the low 30s, even today. And that's why we had to come home so early. My father was so ill with malaria and malaria and dysentery.
And I think the only reason I didn't have a lot of those things is because they started going over to Africa when I was four months old. And I think my immune system was built there and why I don't get sick, I think.
But it goes back to the fact that if you can bring clean water and affordable energy to anybody on the planet without the need for a water system that drills into the ground and depletes an aquifer, or the aquifer gets polluted by these forever chemicals,
If you can have a source that draws fresh, clean water from the air anywhere on the planet, and you have energy for people and information for them to build their own economy and throw off the shackles of tyranny and slavery, you have ushered in the golden age. And that's what President Trump is allowing us to do now. And these innovations are gonna change the world.
Well, here's the reason it hasn't been done before is because the energy, the laws of thermodynamics don't change. And using like an air conditioning system or a condenser or a dehumidifier as a method, it's like five gallons of diesel for one gallon of water. So the efficiency is not there.
But what we did at Genesis Systems, what these brilliant engineers did is they found a way of tricking Mother Nature. where they used a liquid desiccant to be able to make the liquid desiccant so attractive to water in the air that all you do is have to have a very light fan blowing water over a sieve that's filled with this liquid. And the sieve is like a sponge.
Okay, this water, or the liquid desiccant is like a sponge. Imagine there's one gallon of liquid in this sieve, and the air flows over it. That liquid will swell up to 100 gallons. 99 of the gallons of that liquid is pure water. Then you move it into another batch, and you change the thermal characteristics of the liquid, and that's where the proprietary and...
trade secrets and intellectual property come in. You change the thermal properties of that liquid, and now the liquid wants to give up the water. And so it takes very little energy to absorb the water and then release the water. And so it's in this batch cycle like an engine.
It's swelling up to 100 gallons, getting rid of 100 gallons, swelling up to 100 gallons, getting rid of, and then now you benefit from water. And it scales. So the city of Tampa, for example, as I was transitioning from that company, which by the way, that system of water management is what we're gonna use in space habitats.
And we can talk about, again, these companies are connected, not only for the benefit of the human condition of water and electricity and energy, and information, but also for human space flight and human habitats in space, and we'll get to that in a second. But now the city of Tampa was partnering with Genesis Systems to build a 30 million gallon a day
So now you don't have to do desal, you know, the desal is taking ocean water and turning it into drinking water, but then the heavy metals and the brine that come out of the ocean were killing the Tampa Bay, you know, and killing, you know, it is just not sustainable. It's not good for the economy. And the stuff that you put into the landfills will kill the landfill for a thousand years.
So we have to be good stewards of this planet, and we have to figure out a way of getting water to people that need water, clean, fresh water, globally, scale it, but it has to be affordable. The energy equation has to be affordable. So the coupling of this water system, which is already affordable based on the technique of not using dehumidification or air conditioning,
but rather a liquid desiccant that's like this sponge that can work for you, obeying the laws of physics and laws of thermodynamics, but also giving you clean water using a solar panel or affordable at scale, however much you need. In fact, it's on Amazon even right now. You can order one for your house that looks like an air conditioner and gives you clean water for your house.
You can get one on Amazon? Yeah, go take a look. They're still expensive, and they're still in the beta phase, but it's an example of innovation that is now breaking through, but only because the founder, David Stuckenberg, is one of these mighty men of our age that is not dissuaded by anything, and he's a bona fide genius on every front.
And it takes people like Dennis Wingo, the chief technology officer of our company, doing this stuff in space, and a guy like David Stuckenberg breaking through. But here's how the system prevents innovation. Elon Musk wanted to buy that water system to get the water out of the humid air of Boca Chico in southern Texas to cool his launch pad because of all that concrete.
You remember how the first launch destroyed all that concrete and he needed literally tons of water for every launch. But there isn't sufficient water and the ocean water wasn't going to work because of the toxicity and the salt and just all the corrosion. So he wanted to buy a Genesis Systems and build up a million gallons for each launch. And the state of Texas said, forbidden. Why?
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