[xp84]

I can probably be convinced pretty easily with some evidence of that, but you’ll never convince the contingent who is convinced it’ll kill sea life at any concentration or location, so, being able to shut them up by saying “we have no wastewater, we load rail cars with crunchy salt and use it for stuff” still has value.

[__MatrixMan__]

I wish we could reimagine carbon credits to that degree of stringency. You offset a kg of carbon emissions? Let's see that kg.

[kortilla]

The goalposts will just shift to attack that excess salt instead. It’s like all of the FUD about datacenter water usage while people shove almonds in their mouths.

[nkmnz]

In Germany, it's the water usage of a Tesla plant vs. the neighboring asparagus farm.