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There are commercial salt harvesting operations which use such brine. No need to flush it back in the ocean. If you have ever flown into SFO you have seen the
by RajT88 3y ago
There are commercial salt harvesting operations which use such brine. No need to flush it back in the ocean.
If you have ever flown into SFO you have seen the reddish pools. (By the way the red color comes from Brine Shrimp, which presumably there is also use for)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoWhich is good, but may not potentially scale up - if we were desalinating 5X, 10X as much seawater, it seems unlikely we could make use of that much salt, and would have to bury it or dispose of it some other way.
- RajT88 3y agoPeople are considering using salt as a building material now: https://www.archdaily.com/994769/could-salt-be-a-material-of-the-future-innovating-with-crystallized-salt-panels https://www.archdaily.com/994769/could-salt-be-a-material-of... When you have a practically free resource which is waste from a large scale industrial process, cottage industries to make use of the free waste sometimes pop up. It's a solvable problem.
- c1sc0 3y agoAnd it’s not just salt. Other chemicals can be harvested from that brine before you need to dispose of the leftovers, e.g. magnesium carbonate. I know because I run a climbing company that sells chalk (MgCO3) from that production pathway.