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Re:California Is Sitting on the Solution to Its Drought Problem by lsaferite on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:52AM (#9738198)
California has lots of good sun, why not power the plant via solar power?

The brine can be evaporated into salt as well, right?

It seems to mean that problems like this have to be solved via an entire system and not via individual components.

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Re:California Is Sitting on the Solution to Its Drought Problem by kbutler on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:04PM (#9741610)
The amount of energy required to evaporate water means you need a lot of sunlight (area) to evaporate a relatively small amount of salt water.

You can save a lot of energy by getting some water out of sea water, leaving extra-salty brine, rather than trying to get all the water out, leaving dry salt.

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