| ▲ | xyzzyz an hour ago |
| Brine is very easy to dispose of: you just pump it back to where it came from. Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle. |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Brine is very easy to dispose of: you just pump it back to where it came from. Easy, but not necessarily good for the spot you're pumping concentrated salt back into. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The brine came from the ocean. So just dilute it back to close to ambient salinity using municipal waste water that you are discharging anyway. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > The brine came from the ocean. Sure, and enriched uranium comes from the ground, but that doesn't mean it's safe to dump it back in after the enrichment process! > So just dilute it back to close to ambient salinity using municipal waste water… Wouldn't it generally be easier to process that municipal waste water, as is already fairly common? | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The analogy would be if you "un-enrich" it. Then it's safe. Or at least no worse than when you took it out of the ground. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > The analogy would be if you "un-enrich" it. But you're doing that with the same water you're trying to make in the first place! | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You could just dilute it using fresh seawater, if you used enough and (maybe) spread it over a wider area. The amount of water people need for drinking is a relative drop in the ocean. | | |
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| ▲ | Enginerrrd 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Municipal waste water is a much cheaper way to get desalinated water in the first place though. | | |
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| ▲ | nkrisc 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In an ideal world that crystalline salt by product could be used to offset any imported or mined salt, further reducing the environmental impact of those operations. |
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| ▲ | galaxyLogic 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think I read somewhere that salt can be used as energy storage medium? So we could get both water and batteries for renewal energy. |
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| ▲ | an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | qurren an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why? Just build mountains out of it and maybe even open a salt-ski park in the tropics for people who don't have snow. |
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| ▲ | lightedman an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle." Just make prettier-than-Himalayan salt lamps out of it and sell it to hippies. Easy solution. |
