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The other problem with desalination is pollution. Brine, for example, needs to be released somewhere.
by enraged_camel 5y ago
The other problem with desalination is pollution. Brine, for example, needs to be released somewhere.
- azinman2 5y agoCould it be turned into table salt?
- throwawayboise 5y agoI doubt there is that much demand for table salt. Maybe it could be used to deice roads in areas that have freezing weather in the wintertime, now most places use mined salt for that.
- tamaharbor 5y agoThe exhaust muffler industry would love that.
- bbarnett 5y agoSea salt is filled with mondo micro-plastic particles, so I think this would be that, plus other "stuff" thrown in. EG, leakage/contaminants from the desalination process. The best table salt we can currently get, it stuff mined from old oceans. No contaminants, no plastic, etc. For example, Windsor has huge mines in rural Windsor, ON, Canada.. and doesn't just supply table salt, but road salt, water softener salt, etc, the supply has been used for 100 years, sold internationally, and shows no sign of exhaustion... from one old-sea underground deposit. (There's plenty of table salt, no shortages...)
- throwawayboise 5y agoJust dump it back in the ocean (at a suitable depth/distance from shore). Almost all of the purified water will eventually return to the ocean so there won't be a net concentration of salt (not to mention the ocean is really, really big).
- simfree 5y agoFor SoCal it could be detained in the Salton Sea and likely have quite a positive impact in improving water quality there.