China's seawater desalination capacity tops 3 million tons daily
13 days ago by ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to c/china
Damn, that's almost as much salt as lemmy produces on threads about China
there are plenty of uses for salt in industry https://maxisalt.com/...
Once again that is per day which would be just under 42 million tons in one year. To put that in perspective, it is about 7 great pyramids.
This is just one desalinization plant. Producing fresh water from saltwater has this unfortunate and insurmountable side effect. Dumping back into the ocean is the most realistic solution, but it severely damages the ecosystem.
in a few hundred more years -- after the surviving civilizations figure out how to navigate the nuclear fallout -- the salt mounds that were the byproducts of this process will make a whole new class of rich people. :p
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3 million tons of fresh water
35 kg of salt per ton of sea water. That means there are 105 million kg of salt or about 115,000 tons of salt. That is a lot of salt.
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