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by konschubert 886 days ago
Brine is just concentrated seawater. What waste products?
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digging 886 days ago
The waste product is brine. It's an extremely salty sludge that's toxic to marine life. In the same way that fresh water is "just" diluted seawater, but pumping millions of gallons of it into a coastal ecosystem would wipe it out.
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photonbucket 886 days ago
The pipe should really go a dozen miles out to sea and then get pump-mixed with the destination water
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