Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months agocan’t just push it back into the ocean because that increases the salt concentration in the ocean which is actually not great and when done at scale
Only locally, it’s absolutely not a problem globally. That water will go back into the ocean soon enough. We’re not generally putting wastewater in aquifers. The same is true of lithium. Both sodium and lithium dissolve in water, so over time their biggest concentration is in the water and that’s why we refine it from salt flats.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You make that sound like it isn’t an issue. Massive ocean die-offs in a localized area is still a very bad thing.
There’s a reason why oil spills are treated with such seriousness. Globally, an oil spill is also not a problem.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It depends on how local we’re talking about. If you build a pipe out of the littoral zone with multiple outputs you likely wouldn’t kill much of anything but a few plankton. The intake pipe is often worse than the output pipe for wildlife.
teddy2021@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Are you trying to spell literal? Not trying to be a dick, just unsure if you have a different word in mind.
jack@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Littoral” is effectively equivalent to “nearshore”. Makes sense as written.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I misspelled straight, but I was referring to the shallows that contain the vast majority of ocean life due to ease of photosynthesis.