A series of sea channels throughout the operation could provide a number of functions. Firstly, they could support a maritime ecosystem, even if they were inland. This would then produce all manner of seafood: fish, crustaceans, mollusks, seaweed, etc. Second, they would provide a reliable supply of seawater to be desalinated in the desalination facilities. Lastly, by partitioning the last portion of the channel that the water went through prior to entering the desalination facility with a fine mesh filter, it could contain only flora, which would provide an initial bio-filter for that water prior to distillation.
Raising water into these channels would be one of the primary heavy uses of energy in this system. This would be an area where traditional methods of water transport such as Archimedes screws might combine well with the wind energy available as this would not require the energy to be transformed from mechanical to electrical and back, but could potentially be leveraged in its raw mechanical form.
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