Again, think if desalination had a solution to brine, don’t you think it would have been solved by now?
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Absolutely not. The best chemical engineers are are not in the desalination industry. They’re in the chemical industry.
The chemical industry doesn’t give a rats ass about the desalination business—nor would they want competition from desal based chemicals.
There is in short a industrial structural problem here. I’ve talked to guys at the Bureau of Reclamation the San Dia labs and elsewhere in the desal community. They were told 15 years ago by the chemicals industry that brine wasn’t useable. So they simply gave up. They put no effort into it. Only in the last 5-6 years or so have they begun to put more effort into turning brine into useful products.
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Your statements are ‘wishes’ and ‘thoughts’ that are not backed up by practical engineering.
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You’re stone dead wrong here. This stuff going to happen. I’ll show you what the first generation of brine reuse looks like. I wrote an article on this a couple years ago,
http://www.rdwaterpower.com/carbon-sequestration-and-desalination/watereuse-foudation-symposium/
And you will be quite correct to say that its not enough.
That’s what R&D is about.
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The author of this writing is sophomoric.
It does sound like you’ve had your butt burned. I’ll agree that indeed the desal biz moves at a glacial pace.
If you knew your history however, you’d know that government funding for the desal business was nearly 200 million dollars a year for 30 years from the 50-70’s—in 50’s to 70’s dollars. That work produced RO membranes. Then the US government gave up and the technology and industry mostly went overseas.
Presumably you do not work for an foreign company.
You don’t get it. You’re very naive and inexperienced.
OF COURSE valuable salts and minerals can be recovered from brine.
BUT for every cubic yard of fresh water recovered there is about as much brine to contend with and the treatment of brine takes MUCH longer than the time to produce fresh water. So where does one put all the brine? GET IT NOW? Huge pools of brine are backed up while producing fresh water and the brine volume becomes unmanageable!