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You dilute it with more seawater. The salinity of the ocean changes significantly just due to evaporation. The band of variability is roughly 30 to 40 grams of
by Robotbeat 3y ago
You dilute it with more seawater. The salinity of the ocean changes significantly just due to evaporation. The band of variability is roughly 30 to 40 grams of salts per liter for sea surface salinity. So if your discharge is within that band, it's not going to be a significant ecological problem (especially if the discharge is at the right location). It's no more a "mass ecological problem" than surface evaporation of seawater is.
- rtkwe 3y agoMass dilution is going to be fairly expensive because you have to move a significant multiple of the water you actually process. The brine waste water is roughly double the salinity of normal sea water at 70 ppt so to get back to the 33-37 ppt that's the real average band you're looking at moving a lot of sea water to dilute the output. If you run the numbers you're looking at 15:1 of volume to get 70ppt to 37ppt using 35ppt water all while ensuring you're at a place with enough natural mixing that your inputs and outputs don't start feeding back into each other.