sparkyshocks comments on Scientists turn seawater into fresh water without harmful brine

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Where are they supposed to dispose of the salt? I get why concentrated brine is bad to just dispose into the ocean, but the same amount of salts with less water wouldn't make it any better. Is the plan to permanently sequester these salts/minerals from the water cycle?

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

To give an actual answer: put it in already hollowed out salt diapirs at the bottom of salt mines.

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[–] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Sell it. People will pay for salt.

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[–] adwijoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Humans: "we can improve nature" :D

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[+] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works -10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We put em in barrels and store them in "save" locations where they can degrade over a couple of thousands of years and call it a plan.

I mean what's going to happen, nothing right? (And if something happens I won't be alive to give a fuck, so fuck whoever is alive then)

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Yes, that was a jab at nuclear power and its supposedly "save" waste disposal.

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[–] hyperion626@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, we could just make a second dead sea. Or do an advertising campaign to make sensory deprivation tanks popular.

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder what Singapore does then because they don't have the land to store the waste probably.

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