Bro we will need to do desalination plants to supply people with water, there will be more than enough salt and you can’t dump the salt back into the ocean anyway
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 months agoI hope not, because salt isn’t a renewable resource. And who the hell wants to fight the auto industry for something we need for food?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The ocean could uhhhh use some less salt.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fresh take.
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
No. Salt take, make fresh. 😁
suodrazah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 6 months ago
this is plain stupid. sodium is far far more common in the earth than lithium. if you’re worried about sodium not being renewable, then by that logic you should stop using lithium batteries right now.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yes, I understand. I already posted that I was under the impression that we have shortages of the stuff, since we had shortages in Canada. But it was due to a labour dispute, and not a lack of resources.
And yes, I think we should reduce our use of lithium batteries, or at least only use recycled lithium.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Way too much salt to care there.
Nima@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sodium isn’t rare in the slightest. according to Wikipedia, “Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl).”
salt isn’t going anywhere. no need to fret.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
We had a shortage in Canada… but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL
Yes, it’s abundant. But it is still a finite resource that needs to be mined/harvested, and what will that look like when the EVs are running off sodium-ion batteries?
greenmarty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bit better then when we mined coal or lithium since it’s so abundant we don’t have to fck up whole regions for it to get to the little bit here and there. Desalination makes sense, dried death salt lakes also seems logical etc. Salt is everywhere. People are even building artificial “caves” with salt for others to go breath salty air inside.
TheHotze@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of desalinization plants just release the salty brine back out to sea, it’s actually an ecological problem, so finding another use for it might convince them to capture and separate that for manufacturing uses.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That would be a really nice idea!
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
That’s a capitalism problem, not a resource problem. All resources require labor to harvest, renewable or no.