People have made the argument for dumping nuclear waste in the ocean. I believe adding brine to existing brine resivours won’t be too much of a hassle.
People have made the argument for dumping nuclear waste in the ocean. I believe adding brine to existing brine resivours won’t be too much of a hassle.
Baguette@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Are there any brine reservoir in the ocean? That doesn’t seem to be a thing. It either mixes properly with the ocean if proper mechanisms are set or it just ends up sinking to the bottom of the ocean and killing everything there.
There’s storage inland, but that also has its own problems.
Nuclear waste in the ocean follows a similar idea (although larger in scope). You can’t just dump it and be done. You have to create a plan to slowly release it (over decades) to (hopefully) not adversely affect life
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Sure there are. They’re in the lost river, where the juvenile ghost leviathans live. Just go down to the bottom of the blood trench and you’ll get there.
Baguette@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Just one short trip… I just need a bit of nickel
> ends up exploring the entire lost river and inactive lava zone for it
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_pool
Baguette@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Those are the exact brine lakes I talked about that exist in the bottom of the ocean.
Brine is too dense to be above seawater. They accumulate in the bottom, creating essentially small pockets that kills almost every normal life. Only extremophiles live near it, and even then its usually just surrounding the edges of the lake.
You also can’t exactly guarantee that the brine you make ends up here. They are in the bottom of the ocean, not exactly a place you can pump brine to.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think you understand the scale and scope of modern engineerinf.