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this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Presumably it's toxic mostly because of the concentration of salt.
If it can't be used—and up north salt is used in winter for roads—it can be cleaned a bit, diluted with more seawater and discharged back into the ocean.
((the brine of 1 mass unit of seawater that's been desalinated) + 20 units of regular seawater) ÷ 20 = 20 units of 5% saltier seawater discharged
You make it sound so safe and easy. It isn't.
https://archive.ph/V64Cq
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/desalination-pours-more-toxic-brine-ocean-previously-thought
What is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?
It's nice that you think you, without any experience in the matter, can solve problems with desalination that engineers in the field can't, but I doubt you are actually able to.
My question isn't totally rhetorical: I'm but an pseudonymous person on the internet.
Also, I don't think it's an engineering problem as much as a political one.