Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by SoftTalker on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:25PM
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You could just dilute it using fresh seawater, if you used enough and (maybe) spread it over a wider area. The amount of water people need for drinking is a relative drop in the ocean.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by ceejayoz on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:34PM
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Brine doesn't necessarily behave the way you imagine.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by jaggederest on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:52PM
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Blue Planet video of a brinicle, content warning for kind of horrifying death of sea creatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAupJzH31tc
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by ianthehenry on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:10AM
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And a Blue Planet II video of a brine pool, stronger content warning for much more horrifying death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwuVpNYrKPY
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:00PM
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You can dilute the brine in a facility before disposing.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by wlesieutre on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:27PM
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With fresh water, we’ll get it from desalinization! Hey wait a second…
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:07PM
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Sarcasm aside, your comment actually works: you can use the freshwater from desalination!
Just wait for the saltwater to come back around in the sewer.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by wlesieutre on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:12PM
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Globally about 70% of freshwater is used for agriculture so less than a third of it will come back around, if it's exclusively for residential/commercial use you might do better but overall not a strategy that balances out
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by threwrfaway on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:22AM
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70% of desalinated water wont ever go to agriculture because its too expensive to use for corn. Only very high value crops need apply.
But, so what? 30% sewage is still a strong dilluant... especially when mixed with more seawater
Im shocked how many people cannot grasp that you can dilute brine's salinity arbitrarily close to seawater's with energetically cheap pumps.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by ceejayoz on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:50PM
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Go on. With what?
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by asdff on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:49PM
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Seems like you could just dilute it with seawater at like 100:1 ratio and it would be negligible done offshore. We already dump our shit 5 miles out.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:01PM
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100:1 is overkill and energetically very wasteful. It's a fairly straightforward chemical engineering problem.
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by pasquinelli on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:54PM
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gasoline
Re:New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without...
by threwrfaway on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:54PM
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...sea water. You take 10 units of sea water for every unit processed and you'll get a slight increase in salinity.
A phase diagram tells you exactly how far you need to go.
You know this makes more thermodynamic sense than carbon capture, right?
But you're doing that with the same water you're trying to make in the first place!