> without waste

...except for the huge piles of salt.

If the salt was not waste, surely people would already be extracting it from the brine and the existing methods would also be "without waste".

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eimrine 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Persian Gulf has 20% more salt in water because of the humans which are throwing the oversalinated waste back into the sea. Dehidrated salt may be a big deal for some areas because of no waste into input.

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Jblx2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Persian Gulf has 20% more salt in water because of the humans

I would like to read more about this from an authoritative source.

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tdb7893 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Through the magic of Googling "Persian Gulf salinity" it seems like it's more that it's a shallow Gulf in a dry area so it has significant evaporation. Desalination does effect it but it's only a few percent of the total evaporation (which is still surprisingly big) and doesn't sound like the main driving factor or an imminent ecological concern.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14635...

	▲	Jblx2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought the HN-way was to be more charitable than just directly calling out obvious bullshit.

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