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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by thret on Sunday October 19, 2014 @05:31AM (#8477752)
"So nine times out of ten the salt is retained in the leaves of the plant, so you’d have to eat many many kilos of potatoes before you’d exceed your recommended salt intake. But some of the salads are heavy with salt"

Then how are the leaves disposed of, I do not know. Fed to pigs or burnt perhaps, if they were simply used as mulch you would still wind up with a buildup of salt in the soil.

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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by lotsofmangos on Sunday October 19, 2014 @12:47PM (#8478749)
Salt is worth money. If you have a bunch of salty leaves, you should be able to process them and get the salt out.
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by roywiggins on Sunday October 19, 2014 @03:30PM (#8479279)
Might cost you more money to get the salt out than you can sell the salt for, though.
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by mubhij on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:31PM (#8480606)
Just dump the leaves in the ocean. Biodegradable and the salt came from the ocean anyways. The leaves if too concentrated will intake a lot of water and their cells burst. Or the leaves won't be too concentrated and will be eaten by nature.
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by delinka on Sunday October 19, 2014 @10:55AM (#8478421)
Burning leaves a pile of salt. I, too, am curious where they expect the salt to disappear to.
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by thisGuysAccount on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:21AM (#8478483)
If you burn it, and have a pile of salt, it might be possible to remove the ash and keep the salt.
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by DanBC on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:54AM (#8478570)
Burn the leaves and use the ash in artisanal soap?
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Re:Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea ... by ben0x539 on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:46AM (#8478544)
Maybe they can just dump them back into the sea.
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