“The Saudis and Israelis get a large chunk of their water from desalination. What do they do with the leftover brine?”
They eject it offshore under water through high pressure mixing nozzles where the velocity and flow factors instantly mix it with you guessed it less salty seawater rendering the now mixed water stream only slightly more salty than the original seawater being in near saline equilibrium this mixed stream further mixes and dilutes itself to be undetectable as a distinct water body in a few hundred meters of travel. In other words after a few hundred meters the much feared brine is a giant nothingburger. The fear mongering over brine disposal is used to further an agenda in the real world when handled with competent engineering it’s a nonissue.
“In other words after a few hundred meters the much feared brine is a giant nothingburger. The fear mongering over brine disposal is used to further an agenda in the real world when handled with competent engineering it’s a nonissue.”
That’s my take as well. The environuts doing what they do so well - putting roadblocks to any advancement that might help humanity, because in their eyes humans are just parasites who are destroying “mother earth” and their precious sensibilities.
I’m all for being a good steward of what we have been blessed with, but at the end of the day true environmentalism is mostly about humanity’s self interest. In other words, it is in our interest to take good care of what we’ve been given.
We don’t want to be so foolish and short sighted that we destroy that which we need to survive, enjoy and thrive. But neither do we want to be relegated to the status of an un-natural cancerous growth on “mother earth” to be eradicated, like the environazis want to do.
We are the only entity in nature that has the capability to care and do something about his surroundings. They keep to want to personify “mother earth” and to give it “feelings”. In reality mother earth couldn’t care less if a meteor were to strike it tomorrow and blow it up to smithereens - only us humans would care (and might actually be able to do something about it if we saw it soon enough).