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by mangamadaiyan on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:21AM
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I seem to remember reading that dumping the brine byproduct from desalination in the ocean can screw up marine life. I don't have a reference ready, will look for one. I guess there might be a "right" way of dumping brine in the ocean without harming marine life, but I have no idea what that would be.
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Plan it to be combined with waste water treatment or other cooling water from power plants to dilute it, or disperse it over a larger area. It goes into the ocean currently.
You can also dilute it with lots of seawater
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by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:29AM
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It would cause areas of higher salt concentrations where it is dumped. They only way to not cause this (for large volumes of brine) would be to dilute it first and of course that defeats the purpose of salination.
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by throwawayffffas on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:34AM
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You can dilute with treated waste water.
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by Euphorbium on Friday July 05, 2024 @08:35AM
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Pump it through pipe a few miles off coast?
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by SkyPuncher on Friday July 05, 2024 @08:44AM
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It still doesn’t solve the issue.
Two of the major problems is brine doesn’t homogenize well and its denser than seawater. You end up brine that settles into ever nook and cranny on the sea floor without mixing back into the ocean.
Probably a solvable problem, but not something that has a good solution right now.
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by GeoAtreides on Friday July 05, 2024 @01:13PM
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Pump it through pipes with holes in it, so that it leaks n% brine every x% miles. This assures dilution of the brine.