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Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by raverbashing on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:19AM (#11628959)
Regular table salt do come from saltwater, you know that, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt#Production

"All the other ways" is salt mines

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Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by vinceguidry on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:03PM (#11630793)
Since you don't want to just Google the answer for why they're not already doing this, I'll do it for you.

http://www.sidem-desalination.com/Process/FAQ/

Second question down.

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Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by raverbashing on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:36PM (#11631055)
And?

"Whereas they concentrate seawater 1.5 times, recovery of salt would require seawater to be concentrated ten times. Under such conditions the first crystals would appear in the brine"

You'll just start with something more concentrated instead of seawater

Yes, you might have a reason to not want to do that, it might be easier/cheaper to just throw it back into the sea

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