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I wonder why they don’t just dump it into some bit of land where it can evaporate. Obviously this approach doesn’t work everywhere, i.e., if there is risk of
by throwaway894345 5y ago
I wonder why they don’t just dump it into some bit of land
where it can evaporate. Obviously this approach doesn’t work everywhere, i.e., if there is risk of it seeping into groundwater or other parts of the environment, but a few sq km of middle eastern desert? Seems fine.
- dogma1138 5y agoIf managed correctly there is little point. However it seems that the plants in Israel also use evaporative pools on some of the brine and sell it off to some chemical plants but at the scale they desalinate it just not feasible to pool all of if and you still need to get rid of the salt eventually. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135419311765 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/