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It's not -a lot- of electricity ... a couple of thousand kWh per day. It's also used to de-salinate ocean water ... of which there's plenty.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn't produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I swear, nobody in this comment section actually understood the article.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

New to the internet?

To my knowledge, desalination plants do not recover salt from brine. There is a European project that is studying this feasibility. Generally, brines are discharged into the sea, which is destructive for the environment due to their concentration.