Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid

Re:Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid by bruce511 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:32AM (#41442210)

I think there might be local effects from elevated brine levels, but overall nothing substantial.

Compared to the amount of water that is naturally desalinated every day (ie via evaporation), even large scale desalination is a drop in the bucket.

Desalination is already operating on a massive scale in the middle east, and we're not seeing any medium scale effects there. Elevated salinity dissipates very quickly from the point of outflow.

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Re:Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid by containedgravel on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:09AM (#41444718)

>Elevated salinity dissipates very quickly from the point of outflow.

I've not seen any evidence supporting this is the case, but the opposite; large swathes of high-saline concentrated blobs sweeping accross the sealife, killing it. We've had to build specialized very long outflow pipes to give the brine even a change to level

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Re:Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid by burnished on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:52AM (#41445052)

If convenient could you link to such?

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Re:Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid by woleium on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:47PM (#41470244)

Its also denser, so will settle in basins underwater (search for helocline)

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