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Don't know about the rest, but the salt can probably just stay dissolved. Their feedstock is cheap, costing a bit of pump electricity at worse, so I assume they
by andrewflnr 4y ago
Don't know about the rest, but the salt can probably just stay dissolved. Their feedstock is cheap, costing a bit of pump electricity at worse, so I assume they can turn just a little bit of it into gas and toss the rest overboard.
- samtho 4y agoYou will quickly reach a max saturation unless you are letting water simply run through it. Regardless, the act of running water with impurities through any medium will result in deposits.
- andrewflnr 4y agoJust letting it run through, or otherwise cycling it really quickly and cheaply, does seem possible to me. I'd be interested to know if there are any fundamental reasons you can't let it flow, like if water moving past the electrodes decreases efficiency or something. You would at least need to watch out for the current taking away your product. Deposits, yeah, but that alone doesn't sound like a showstopper. This is far from the first engineering application to use seawater, there are probably ideas out there that they can borrow.