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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I’m not very well read on this so I could very well be off-base, but couldn’t you leverage the heat as a means to desalinate saltwater instead of using freshwater and letting it evaporate into the atmosphere?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    While desalination does need a lot of energy it's dealing with the waste brine that's the bigger problem when actually planning one. You can't just dump it back into the ocean without killing a huge swathe of marine life.

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