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It might be better just to sacrifice specific spots rather than to try to spread it evenly.
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
It might be better just to sacrifice specific spots rather than to try to spread it evenly.
- SargeDebian 3y agoIt will still need to spread from that spot.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoYeah, but depending on the details and design of the sacrificed area, it might be less environmental impact overall.
- chongli 3y agoOr another solution would be just to take a hit on efficiency and not produce highly concentrated brine as a water product. If instead we extract just a bit of fresh water out and return saltwater with slightly elevated salt concentration then it wouldn’t be so lethal to marine life. Or we could have a premix station where we pump in sea water and mix it with brine at a certain ratio and then return that to the sea.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWell yeah but the net result is just less fresh water; it's a fairly predictable process like that. And with your second process, you still end up with a higher concentration of salt / brine around where it's returned to the sea, still killing animals. I'm thinking of pumping the brine onto large evaporation lakes and harvest the salt or whatever - which also already happens to produce sea salt. And if there's too much salt for the market, just stockpile it. Like underground salt mines.