Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 29 days agoFor states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareFor states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 29 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 days agogotta do something with the brine
minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·29 days agoWe are talking about humanity here, we will pump the brine into tapped out oil and gas holes and end up salting the aquifers.
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·29 days agoBrine can be transported to different parts of the ocean? It’s a massive bodie of water. Widespread adoption would have to be massive as well to see significant increases in molar concentration.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·29 days agowhere exactly? what do you want to kill and pollute? what area deserves it?
gotta do something with the brine
We are talking about humanity here, we will pump the brine into tapped out oil and gas holes and end up salting the aquifers.
Brine can be transported to different parts of the ocean? It’s a massive bodie of water. Widespread adoption would have to be massive as well to see significant increases in molar concentration.
where exactly? what do you want to kill and pollute? what area deserves it?