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.
> “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.”
The throughput processing for brine slurries backs up. Desalination volume is therefore limited to the time it takes to process the brine.
Your statements are ‘wishes’ and ‘thoughts’ that are not backed up by practical engineering. Your statement that “more R&D needs to be done” is decades old. Plenty of research has been done on treating and processing brine. Do you really think you are announcing something that isn’t more than 100 years old? Think Man, if the brine problem had been solved or was solvable, there would be desalination plants everywhere.
Don’t be so cavalier in thinking all that is needed is “more R&D” for brine.
There are other solutions in work but current desalination tech is not on that list.
Again, think if desalination had a solution to brine, don’t you think it would have been solved by now? And you should know that the best water treatment scientists and engineers have tried to solve this important problem.
The author of this writing is sophomoric in conceptualizing but he does at least draw attention to the fact that cheap essentials lessen dependency.
Sounds like such a waste. May be some way will be found to form oink collection and aggregation and use it effectively on the battlefield against islamonazis and ISIS.
Dry the brine out further and sell it as sea salt.