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Wouldn't it be better to simply recycle the non-salty water instead?
by s0rce 10y ago
Wouldn't it be better to simply recycle the non-salty water instead?
- kaybe 10y agoDepends. You only need a difference in salinity, not non-salty water. If the brine is much more saline than the ocean, there's your energy potential. On the other hand, this kind of power plant also goes well at the mouth of a river. You don't need clean water at all. I don't know about California, is all the fresh water fully recycled until the rivers are dry? That would be hard to imagine.
- CN7R 10y agoI don't think the rivers would run dry if we recycled waste water, as a majority of it is just dumped into the ocean.