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The problem isn't "the ocean." The problem is the brine sinks and forms a hypersaline layer, creating a dead zone in coastal waters which are typically highly b
by schiffern 3y ago
The problem isn't "the ocean." The problem is the brine sinks and forms a hypersaline layer, creating a dead zone in coastal waters which are typically highly biodiverse.
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/five-things-know-about-desalination https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/five-things-know...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190114220150/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-brine-idUSKCN1P81PX https://web.archive.org/web/20190114220150/https://www.reute...
- kgermino 3y agoHow far away from the shore would you need to go? I imagine it would be fairly easy to pipe the brine a few miles off shore to deeper waters. I have no idea how much of an impact that would have though.
- BurningFrog 3y agoWithout any estimates of magnitudes that is meaningless. Of course building infrastructure affects nature, on land and in the oceans.
- schiffern 3y ago> Without any estimates of magnitudes that is meaningless. I see you didn't click my second link, and/or research it yourself. ;) But even if the magnitude of harm were unknown, that doesn't mean we can just default to "ignore it." Additional sources: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.845113/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.8451... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/
- BurningFrog 3y agoI did read the second link, and I did not argue for "ignore it" as the default policy.