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Marine electrolyzers corrode and foul within months. Need architecture that survives 5+ years in seawater at <$80/ton CO₂.
"How do we make replacement so cheap that survival doesn't matter?"
via Desalination
The desalination industry solved seawater fouling decades ago with electrodialysis reversal—polarity switching every 15-30 minutes that dissolves scale and kills biofilms before they mature.
CaCO₃ solubility increases ~100x from pH 10 to pH 4. When polarity reverses, acidic conditions dissolve accumulated scale.
Electrolyzer industry inherited chlor-alkali assumptions. EDR is standard in desalination but the communities don't overlap.
Desalination industry (electrodialysis reversal)
The physics is identical—scale dissolution at low pH, biofilm disruption from ionic oscillation.
3-month seawater exposure test with polarity reversal protocol optimization
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