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Or 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
by chongli 3y ago
Or 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.