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The problem with desalination is that you don't extract all of the water, you extract half of it, leaving a bunch of very salty water to be dumped back into the
by AndrewDucker 5y ago
The problem with desalination is that you don't extract all of the water, you extract half of it, leaving a bunch of very salty water to be dumped back into the ocean, causing dead zones.
- ncmncm 5y agoPiping the brine farther out to sea, with leaky pipe, mitigates that. A better solution is direct solar thermal desalination, and flushing at night. Brine might also be drained to the Salton Sea.