> A few caveats to start: I’ll focus on energy use and costs here. I’m not analyzing the amount of brine water that’s generated and how to manage that in an env

> A few caveats to start: I’ll focus on energy use and costs here. I’m not analyzing the amount of brine water that’s generated and how to manage that in an environmentally-sustainable way. Not because that’s not important, but because this post would '“absurdly” long. Also, because maybe, just maybe, it would ruin the point the author is trying to confirm here. This is a very expensive and resource intensive part of the process. It feels completely disingenuous to ignore those costs in the context of what this article is trying to do, because these costs are significant: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2004WR003749 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...