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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoYou make it sound so safe and easy. It isn’t. https://archive.ph/V64Cq https://www.sciencenews.org/article/desalination-pours-more-toxic-brine-ocean-previously-thought
minus-squareDMBFFF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWhat is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIt’s nice that you think you, without any experience in the matter, can solve problems with desalination that engineers in the field can’t, but I doubt you are actually able to.
minus-squareDMBFFF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoMy question isn’t totally rhetorical: I’m but an pseudonymous person on the internet. Also, I don’t think it’s an engineering problem as much as a political one.
You make it sound so safe and easy. It isn’t.
https://archive.ph/V64Cq
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/desalination-pours-more-toxic-brine-ocean-previously-thought
What is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?
It’s nice that you think you, without any experience in the matter, can solve problems with desalination that engineers in the field can’t, but I doubt you are actually able to.
My question isn’t totally rhetorical: I’m but an pseudonymous person on the internet.
Also, I don’t think it’s an engineering problem as much as a political one.