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[–] DMBFFF 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Texas indeed has been blessed with much sunlight to make solar energy quite viable. This includes solar hot water heaters, and many trees to grow with vigour and bio-filtrate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I love me some bio-filtrate

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and many trees to grow with vigour

Not so vigorous when climate change causes a massive drought.

[–] DMBFFF 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They have 591 km of coastline.

lots of salt water + lots of solar energy = lots of desalinated water

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you do with all the leftover toxic brine?

[–] DMBFFF 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] DMBFFF 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DMBFFF 1 points 7 months ago

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.