[banachtarski]

This is emphatically not true. The salinated impurities that are a byproduct of this process will kill everything in the zone that is is reintroduced to. Just because it is a small fraction of the ocean doesn't mean we can easily spread it across the entire ocean. Even then, we are doing an irreversible transformation of the ocean as a whole, and we need to be smart about the waste for the process to be sustainable.

I can think of several countries that did this incorrectly and killed large portions of their coastal ecology as a result.

[ars]

> The salinated impurities that are a byproduct of this process

That's a very inaccurate way of saying that. You are implying that that desalination creates new byproducts. It does not. Any byproducts were already in the ocean.

You just run your outflow pipe far into the ocean, and mix it with ordinary seawater and it's sufficiently diluted.

[infinotize]

That's misleading. It's not technically a byproduct, but taking literally tons of salt that was spread evenly throughout the ocean and dumping it out at high concentration at the end of a pipe has significant (and bad) ramifications for the ecosystem at the end of the pipe.

[amazon_not]

Nobody said to dump it out a pipe at one single point. Spread it out leaky pipe style over a large volume of ocean so that the average salt concentration does not significantly rise.

[mattmanser]

Well, if you can think of them, can you type their names out and share them perhaps?

Or are you generally referring to pollution rather than disastrous desalination attempts?