West Coast has always refused to develop desalination plants.
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There is a reason. Seems like from Babylon Bee, but they take is seriously!
The desalinization nowadays rely on pressuring water through some special membranes, which let H2O through, but NaCl not.
Well, now you have fresh water and water with high content of salt. That salty water must be discarded.
Believe or not, those WOKE’s are worrying about polluting the ocean by discarding this salty water into it!!!
Seriously!
Unbelievable!
Maybe the dummies might fear that, but their leaders know better and are following an agenda
I’ve always thought the elites wanted California as their own kingdom in America and are making life hell for everybody until they get what they want
Yeah, what would the ocean do with salt? Horrors.
>>The desalinization nowadays rely on pressuring water through some special membranes, which let H2O through, but NaCl not.<<
It is called reverse osmosis
That is exactly the reason. You have to be careful, or you get the salt concentration so high the membranes won’t work and a dead zone is created by the outlet.
The ocean is so vast and massive that its size is not readily comprehensible to the human mind. A piddling amount of salt from a water plant is no more than a spit into the ocean.
Take that extra salty water and dry it into edible salt. They could then sell it all around the world.
“Believe or not, those WOKE’s are worrying about polluting the ocean by discarding this salty water into it!!! Seriously!
Unbelievable!”
No kidding. I mean, sea salt is a common condiment and can be found in any grocery store. I’d think it would be no great stretch to collect the “discarded” salt from the desalination plant and process it for marketing as a condiment.
I’m not an oceanographer but if salt is removed and not returned to the ocean; over time it will change the salt content which would be bad for the ocean life. Seems to me there’s an easy way to run pipes out to sea with multiple holes in them to spread the high salt content water around so it wouldn’t do any harm. Same with intake pipes so that the intakes have low suction pressure to minimize harm to ocean life.