SatanLifeProTips t1_j2251y1 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 2:37 AM

Reply to comment by darkingz in UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

Hence why you put them in areas with ocean currents. Spend any time scuba diving? There are a LOT of areas that are absolute deserts in the ocean. Sandy and empty. There’s nothing around for miles.

And the currents. Oh my. Does water move. You get caught in one and you are going for a ride. Planning current dives is very popular. Relax in the current, go for a ride. Arrange for a boat to pick you up or sometimes it’s a long wall dive and you end up a long ways out.

The ocean? It’s big. Real big. Insanely big. As long as you have some water movement, you could put a city sized discharge pipe into of these areas and with a 2kph current the brine uptick would be basically undetectable 1km away. The sheer volume of water is nuts.

As long as you locate where water is moving and away from a big habitat area there is ZERO issues.