[ClearCase_guy]

There is a freeper who shows up on these threads and always says that the leftover brine from desal plants is highly toxic — worse than radioactive waste. Putting it in the ocean, or the Dead Sea, or Death Valley would have devastating consequences.

I don’t know anything, so I can’t say he’s wrong. But I guess Israel thinks he is.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They’re arguing about it in the comments at the article.

[Roos_Girl]

Been too long since I took my water treatment classes. If they can do the RO up front before chemicals are added they could take the brine, evap out the water and sell the sea salt. :)

[BwanaNdege]

There is a freeper who shows up on these threads and always says that the leftover brine from desal plants is highly toxic

"Organic, sustainable, locavore, ORGANIC sea salt" (highly toxic waste left after fresh water is removed from sea water)

(Same thing in a smaller quantity)

(BTW, that Freeper is correct. Salt is highly toxic and has been used for millennia to KILL BACTERIA WHICH CAUSE FOOD TO SPOIL!)

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I don’t know anything, so I can’t say he’s wrong. But I guess Israel thinks he is.”

Dead wrong! Piss in the ocean...you have not changed the ocean.

[Tucker39]

Don’t know about that, but Aruba has had a large desalinization plant for years, providing wonderful, germ-free, potable water to the entire island, and then the (Dutch) gubmint makes money selling the salt that results from the process. The Jews are very intelligent and clever, but the Dutch are no slouches, either.

[PapaBear3625]

There is a freeper who shows up on these threads and always says that the leftover brine from desal plants is highly toxic — worse than radioactive waste. Putting it in the ocean, or the Dead Sea, or Death Valley would have devastating consequences.

The guy is a loon. The input to the plant is salt water. The output is slightly saltier water, which immediately gets diluted back to its original salt level once it returns to the ocean.