California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
its possible to make the dumping fine but they like shaving costs so they just dump it all in one spot. if there were many dumping zones itd be fine. hell if you just found a way to dump it farther from shore thatd be a huge upgrade
but no they like to take all the toxic sludge and dump it in one spot repeatedly for years and then are shocked when the environment is devastated by heavy metals and radioactive materials
Half baked thought that could definitely have issues, including that I have no idea how much of said sludge is produced: Put the sludge on container ships and have them drop it periodically across the ocean
yeah its not completely unreasonable. they might need to filter out stuff that will just coalesce in one spot no matter what but all that stuff is just naturally part of the ocean is the thing
Eventually the price for rare minerals will get high enough that processing of brine will be profitable.