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According to a quick Google search, > On average, about 35 g of salt is present in each 1 kg of seawater so if those 700 billion kg of water for LA all came f
by jfk13 3y ago
According to a quick Google search,
> On average, about 35 g of salt is present in each 1 kg of seawater
so if those 700 billion kg of water for LA all came from desalination, that would yield 24.5 billion kg of salt.
That suggests we could have 12 LA-sized cities relying entirely on desalination before we'd saturate the world's demand for salt.
- dataflow 3y ago> That suggests we could have "Could have" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Assuming spherical cows, 12 is an upper limit, okay. What you could actually do is neither remotely close to that nor is that itself remotely close to what the world needs, was the point.
- BurningFrog 3y agoThe demand for salt is already saturated. It's a mature worldwide industry. Adding your 12 cities would double the supply.
- mxmilkiib 3y agoSalt filled with micro/nanoplastics.