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Also, if you really want to recover the salt, you’d just have to boil away the water. Alternatively, pickling is a perfectly good use of brine used for frugal
by bobthepanda 4y ago
Also, if you really want to recover the salt, you’d just have to boil away the water.
Alternatively, pickling is a perfectly good use of brine used for frugal purposes (extending the shelf life of produce, eggs, and what have you)
- robotresearcher 4y ago> Also, if you really want to recover the salt, you’d just have to boil away the water. This is probably the point the poster was making: this requires a lot of energy. There's a lot of NaCl in the world, but getting it out of solution is expensive.
- bobthepanda 4y agoIf that’s a major concern, you can literally leave it in the sun like the other person suggested.
- AngryData 4y agoBoiling is quick and convenient, but just evaporating the water out with ambient air is all but free.