Desalination causes thick briny slurries which kill ocean seabeds.
Otherwise Saudi Arabia would be the Earth’s biggest greenbelt.
But there are promising solutions; desalination is just not one of them.
But the premise of this writing has merit. Cheap essentials reduce dependency. Anything that reduces dependency is anathema to what drives the socialists in the Democratic party. Anything that frightens these socialists is good for America; a simple refrain yet universally true.
Desalination causes thick briny slurries which kill ocean seabeds.
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well yeah, you’re right —but the solution to that problem is obvious.
You figure out how to use the brine for industrial purposes. Na and Cl are industrial chemicals which can be re purposed. Plus the brine has a lot of useful trace metals.
So the brine becomes a profit center rather than a cost waste center.
There are already a number of companies around who are doing parts of this. But more R&D needs to be done.
In the end you do for salt water what they do with pigs. Use everything but the oink.