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If you have access to the sea and to uranium you can make all the freshwater you need, even recycle your own wastewater nearly infinitely. This is a technologi

• JPLeRouzic 1y ago
  > If you have access to the sea and to uranium you can make all the freshwater you need I don't believe that would be true on a large scale because the seaside would quickly become polluted with brine, and then having an infinite supply of uranium wouldn't help you. Desalination only works in the long term if there is an unlimited amount of body water to dilute the brine produced by the process.
  • triceratops 1y ago
    Do you have to release brine directly into the seaside? What about long pipes with holes that go 50-100 kilometers into the sea? There's no question of polluting all the oceans with brine. They get freshwater from the rain and the salt came from the oceans in the first place. We aren't net destroying water molecules.
    • JPLeRouzic 1y ago
      That's a very theoretical point of view. How to maintain those pipes? In two or three years, they will be full of small mollusks and other seafood.
      • FredPret 1y ago
        There are many sewer and storm outlets just like this all around the world already
      • spauldo 1y ago
        Only the outside. The inside will be full of brine. Once the salinity exceeds a certain value nothing but extremophile bacteria can survive in it.
  • mensetmanusman 1y ago
    No, you just evaporate the brine and then you have a large source of lithium for battery production.
    • JPLeRouzic 1y ago
      No, just use the brine as dirty electrolyte :-)
• spauldo 1y ago
  Access to the sea, uranium, and thirty years of economic planning, money, and political will to build the infrastructure. We'd have nuclear desalinization in Los Angeles is it was that easy.