Comment on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 year agoDesalination won’t touch a percentage of a percentage of a percentage of the brine produced by the sun simply by evaporation.
Our problem isn’t the byproduct, it’s how to return it to the sea in a distributed way rather than out a single pipe. That’s an engineering problem, not an ethical or environmental one.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dress it up or call it whatever you want, but there have been horrible problems with it in the past, and nothing has been done to prevent them happening in the future. A problem is a problem regardless of what type of problem you want to categorize it is.
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let me put it in a way you might understand:
Ethical problem - Potentially no correct solution, tradeoffs likely.
Engineering problem - Smart people do maths until problem is solved.