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Saarth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

With rising sea levels and general water shortages, why don’t we also use them as desalination plants?

Surely there has to be a way to deal with brine, it’s just salt and water after all?

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biggeoff@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Salt is absolutely terrible for any equipment involved in power generation. You’re better off with a power plant and a separate desalination plant than trying to use one for both

But you’re right, cheap energy will help immensely with this

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- jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Say that too molten salt reactors! /s
  
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  - biggeoff@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Haha true that, though if I’m not mistaken a large part of the engineering of molten salt reactors is dealing with the salt…man I want the cool tech to be rolled out
    
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
In other words, boil water yet again?

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