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> A large issue is where do you put the brackish or super-salted water? Desalination is great as long as you have the waste impacts managed. We designed a whol
by dontbenebby 4y ago
> A large issue is where do you put the brackish or super-salted water? Desalination is great as long as you have the waste impacts managed.
We designed a whole thing to store nuclear waste (Yucca Mountain[1], couldn't you put brackish water in something similar but wayyyy less expensive since it's not radioactive?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
- gruez 4y agoI think you're underestimating how much waste water is produced by orders of magnitude. Any inland reservoir will be filled within months of completion.