• Zron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you think the salt is just going to get loaded on rockets and sent to the sun?

    The earth is a closed system, the salt and the water will eventually make it back to the ocean.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, I don’t think that. I think we will desalinate the ocean enough for it go up by the few degrees it needs to kill most ocean life. Probably over the span of a few decades. But go off on how this is consequence free i guess.

      • Zron@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Again, you grossly underestimate the sheer volume of our planet’s oceans.

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          1 year ago

          Again, climate change is effecting the ocean the most. If it is already strained, and for the next 100 years we start mass desalination in developed nations, what do you think will happen to the already rising and deadly temperatures? If they are already approaching dangerous levels, and desalination raises the temperature, what will happen? I’m not misunderstanding here, I’m telling you once this picks up en masse there will be consequences.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yep so u pump the salt water into the desert where evaporation makes salty and the water evaporates into the atmosphere.