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This isn't as simple as it sounds, the byproduct of desalination plants is brine. If dumped into the ocean, it can sink and cause ecological damage. I'd be for
by AA-BA-94-2A-56 4y ago
This isn't as simple as it sounds, the byproduct of desalination plants is brine. If dumped into the ocean, it can sink and cause ecological damage.
I'd be for it, as long as they find a useful use for brine that doesn't involve dumping it back into the ocean.
- JetAlone 4y agoI'd rather have a "We need to do brine disposal labour" problem than a "We have nothing to irrigate/drink/wash with" problem.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoYes, and if it comes to that point, I think people will simply choose to let some fish die before millions of humans die of thirst. We are still quite far from true existential threat if the worst case is some minor ecological damage.
- pasttense01 4y agoI was just reading about an alternative where for 2 gallons of ocean water you get one gallon of fresh water and one gallon with twice the concentration of ocean water--which you return to the ocean.