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Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by blacksmith_tb on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:30PM (#36004598)
Which is good, but may not potentially scale up - if we were desalinating 5X, 10X as much seawater, it seems unlikely we could make use of that much salt, and would have to bury it or dispose of it some other way.
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by RajT88 on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:34PM (#36004634)
People are considering using salt as a building material now:

https://www.archdaily.com/994769/could-salt-be-a-material-of...

When you have a practically free resource which is waste from a large scale industrial process, cottage industries to make use of the free waste sometimes pop up. It's a solvable problem.

Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by Izikiel43 on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:28PM (#36005878)
Then your house melts with the rain
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by RajT88 on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:14PM (#36006929)
Article talks about that kinda. You have to read at least halfway through it.
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by p1mrx on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:19PM (#36006972)
Look what you've done! I'm dissolving, dissolving! Ohh, what a world.