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Maybe in the future we could use desalination/resalination for power storage. There is a lot of sea out there.
by im3w1l 7y ago
Maybe in the future we could use desalination/resalination for power storage. There is a lot of sea out there.
- peteretep 7y agoHow would that work? Is resalination exothermic?
- caf 7y agoTo the contrary, dissolving sodium chloride in water is slightly endothermic.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoIn desalination, you're taking a substance that is literally worthless and turning it into something valuable (though cheap). It seems unlikely that once you've got the water, the best available use for it would be dumping it back into the sea. (Which would be the easiest way to resalinate it -- since you're already desalinating, we can safely assume you're next to the sea.)
- adrianN 7y agoPerhaps they want to use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721049