hmmmm
If the objective is just to get electicity, then I would say no after reading this article (http://www.stardrivedevice.com/electrolysis.html), but in this case, the waste of pure water is also an objective for boaters. I wonder how many solor panels it would take to run a system to charge the batteries and produce drinking water.Summary of how I think it works. Solor panels capture energy and pass it on down to the system as electicity to be applied to salt water. That breaks out the H2 from the salt water. Now take that H2 and combine it with oxygen (O) and that will generate electricity which can be used to charge the batteries and pure water will be the waste which could be funnelled into the tank. When the tank is full, the system shuts down and the current from the panels would then be feed into the batteries.Kind of interesting, don't you think?