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Not the sea, but the localized area might have a brine lake, which is a deadzone for marine life there. If diffused over a large area, it will not have an impac
by chii 3y ago
Not the sea, but the localized area might have a brine lake, which is a deadzone for marine life there. If diffused over a large area, it will not have an impact. The only problem is cost.
The minuscule amount of salts being added into the ocean does nothing to the whole ocean. One river will have washed out more salt.
- ggm 3y agoSalinas or salt marshes are highly productive for native species adapted to high salt levels. Brine shrimp feed Flamingoes (if you are lucky) or other aquatic bird species. No, you can't just assume this salt burden is fine, and that we get good salt marshes from it, but it's also not entirely true that high salt level brine is going to "destroy" the ecology. It's going to alter it, for sure. That isn't always very good, it depends what else has also destroyed the ecology, and what upsides there are to making a salt marsh. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816222004155 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S034181622...
- fnordpiglet 3y agoExcept this article is about irrigating with sea water to mix with fresh water. A salt water marsh is not a particularly concentrated salt water, and is diluted by rain and water flow above and under ground. The brine from desalination is extremely concentrated and toxic. In theory you could dilute it with large amount of fresh water to make salt marshes, but the entire point is to make fresh water from salt water. For a salt marsh you’re better doing as in the article you linked and pumping sea water from the ocean.