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He addresses brine, but not the waste products that come from brine, and only addresses it in one sentence: > The resulting depleted brine is piped back to the
by JohnMakin 3y ago
He addresses brine, but not the waste products that come from brine, and only addresses it in one sentence:
> The resulting depleted brine is piped back to the ocean where it is thoroughly mixed with sea water and discharged.
This is not nearly as easy as this sentence implies.
- konschubert 3y agoBrine is just concentrated seawater. What waste products?
- digging 3y agoThe waste product is brine. It's an extremely salty sludge that's toxic to marine life. In the same way that fresh water is "just" diluted seawater, but pumping millions of gallons of it into a coastal ecosystem would wipe it out.
- photonbucket 3y agoThe pipe should really go a dozen miles out to sea and then get pump-mixed with the destination water
- tuatoru 3y agoYes it is. We do it with urban wastewater in thousands of locations around the world. This is not a hard problem, nor is it expensive.