[LVS1]

Water also has an unusually high surface tension, allowing insects to walk on its surface, and a large capacity to store heat, keeping ocean temperatures stable.

It also acts as a global heatsink that evens out climate variability.

[mfish13]

It is caused by hydrogen bonding and has been studied for years. I studied this a little in Chemistry graduate work in the 70’s.

[Reeses]

could shed light on how water led to the origin and survival of life on Earth and inform the development of renewable energy methods."

There's the required tie in. Most research these days has to either be connected to global warming or quantum computing.

CO2, the carbon source of all life on Earth, is 125 more concentrated in water than in air, so for net zero carbon schemes, the place to extract it is where most of the work has already been done. Trying to extract it from the air is nuts.