Maybe I’m completely off in terms of volume and practicality, but if the process results in piles of salt, and if dumping piles of salt directly into the ocean is bad, could they consider dumping it into Death Valley? I’m pretty sure it won’t wipe out any major species there.
Possibly sell it as California salt?
There are no piles of salt with reverse osmosis desal. The typical recovery rate is 1:1 fresh water to brine. That brine has all the original salt of the seawater since it’s half the volume it’s twice as salty which for normal seawater at 35,000 ppm yields a 70,000 ppm brine sounds like a lot change the units to per cent and it’s 7% brine. This brine when elected under pressure into the seawater it came from rapidly mixed with more seawater to go back to nearly it’s original ppm value a few dozen meters from the outfall ejectors. One gallon ejected mixes with one gallon now it’s only 50% another gallon of mixing and half again you get the idea in very short distances it falls off to undetectable levels. It’s fear mongering by people with political agendas who harp about “toxic brine” the Israelis have the second largest RO plant in the world on the high salinity Mediterranean coastline even they have zero issue a with “toxic bribes”