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Caucasiafro t1_j6jde4j wrote

Reply to comment by dkf295 in ELI5 Why is desalination so hard? by MiloFrank76

Regarding "what to do with the salt" wouldn't we be able to just use the salt from desalination plants and have that replace salt mining?

Obviously the concept is killed before even getting to this problem but I'm just wondering.

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Envelope_Torture t1_j6jl40g wrote

Most large scale desalination is reverse osmosis, which produces a very salty brine rather than solid deposits of anything. Further processing and refining of minerals from this would also be very resource intensive as well as complex. There is a lot of research going on in this area as well.

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