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.
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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?