To my knowledge, desalination plants do not recover salt from brine. There is a European project that is studying this feasibility. Generally, brines are discharged into the sea, which is destructive for the environment due to their concentration.
Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks agoIt’s pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn’t produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.
richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I swear, nobody in this comment section actually understood the article.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
New to the internet?