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Straight up dumping it in the ocean is generally considered bad. The standard trick is to wash/mix the brine with fresh ocean water to reduce the concentration
by anon1253 7y ago
Straight up dumping it in the ocean is generally considered bad. The standard trick is to wash/mix the brine with fresh ocean water to reduce the concentration of salt before dumping it back. Another interesting byproduct that is often overlooked are the metals and minerals. Things like lithium (and even gold) are relatively abundant in sea water and could be recovered from the brine (at the cost of complexity of course).