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Salt is very hydrophilic, I believe this means that it's very difficult to get the last bit of water out. Further, if you leave dry salt out in a humid environm
by 20after4 3y ago
Salt is very hydrophilic, I believe this means that it's very difficult to get the last bit of water out. Further, if you leave dry salt out in a humid environment and it naturally pulls humidity out of the air.
- cf141q5325 3y agoIt collects on top though. Fleur de sel is made that way i believe. You arguably dont need to get all the water out of there as long as you have a steady stream of water with high salt content coming in. Much of the price of that is coming from not breaking the formed patterns during harvest.
- thomasahle 3y agoPour it out in the desert?
- zdragnar 3y agoMost deserts are inhabited by endangered or threatened species. There aren't actually a lot of deserts so lifeless that you could avoid environmental activists getting in the way, at least not in the US.
- midoridensha 3y agoUS deserts are full of life; they're very far from lifeless. They're nothing like the endless sand dunes we envision when we think of the Sahara desert, Saudi Arabia, or the planet Arrakis.
- willis936 3y agoThe desert is far away. The ocean is much closer. Issues with increasing salinity go down drastically if you pump just a bit further into the ocean, where it is rapidly spread by currents. If that's considered too difficult/costly/energy demanding then pumping to a desert would be that much worse.
- d-lisp 3y agoThat kind of desert : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni
- cf141q5325 3y agoEd Staffords Into The Unknown visits salt harvesting sites in the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia in case somebody wants some more insights into this. edit: Or here Aljazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDiW2ELx7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDiW2ELx7k