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> 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
by 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 agoDo 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 agoThat'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.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoNo, you just evaporate the brine and then you have a large source of lithium for battery production.
- JPLeRouzic 1y agoNo, just use the brine as dirty electrolyte :-)