Yeah. It may be "simple" but it's not going to be cheap. I still think it'll be cheaper than dedicating huge swaths of coastal land to become brine-drying fields, though.
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Total US salt production is roughly 40 million metric tons (or 40 billion kg) per year.
Let's say we use this process to desalinate water for just 10% LA County's water needs. LA County currently uses 1.5mm acre-feet of water per year. In SI units, this is about 2 trillion liters each year.
There's about 35g of salt in each liter of seawater.
So... at just 10%, we're desalinating about 200 billion liters a year and producing 7 million tons of salt.
If we desalinate for the rest of the state, or the rest of the Southwest, we'll easily be producing more salt each year than all of the mining activity nationwide.
At some point the excess salt will have no buyers, and we will still need to deal with it.
I'm a fan of the simpler approach: Build long-ass pipes out into the ocean, and slowly dilute the brine so that it's not concentrated in any one spot. The total salinity of the entire ocean will not change by any perceptible amount, so long as you don't drop heavy brine in any one spot.
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Yeah, that confused me as well. I had to read that 3 times to figure out the distinction.
53% of Americans say they would definitely not support him if he’s the GOP nominee, and another 11% say they probably would not back him in November 2024.
"the GOP nominee" and "in November 2024" both refer to the same thing, but the phrasing change distracts from the definitely/probably thing.
Oh yeah? Well why did RealPlayer try to open your “1994 Taxes” folder?
Why did Toto load up their music with malware? I tried to listen to this just now, but all I got were 23 toolbars in my IE5!
“This is the most horrible incident of police brutality I’ve learned of over my whole career, and I’m ashamed it happened at this department,” Bailey said.
Liar. There's no way you have six deputies—forming a "Goon Squad"—and not have some idea of their depravity. Bailey is probably ashamed it went this far and got exposed. He probably thinks it'd be better if the deputies just had a bit of chill when brutalizing uppity Black people on the wrong side of the river. He's ashamed of their sloppiness.
And he'll probably win re-election by 87% again...
I think that legal theory is intended to prevent the trial from even reaching a jury. This was in a motion to get the case tossed out of state court, citing the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.