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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The issue is that even at scale, they won’t be able to undercut the traditional ways other companies already acquire these materials. The energy is just that costly. So in a way it is the cost of energy that is prohibiting capitalism to save us, but that’s not the underlying problem if we knew what to do with the brine cheaply.

    I did not opt for the “chemical process” per se, concentrating the salt itself causes chemical reactions and compounds that are difficult to manage, without us adding any to the mix.

    They also often add some chemicals for stabilizing the brine to make it more manageable until disposal that would be difficult to circumvent



  • He’s wrong that energy is the issue. Yes it’s expensive, but we can do it safely.

    The brine, you cannot just throw back into the ocean, it will instantly cause a natural disaster if done at scale. For one, a lot of chemical reactions during the desalination process cannot be diluted, they must be removed. These chemicals are also not just removed with energy, they are removed with other chemicals who then need energy and more chemicals for removal.

    The salt we eat and the salt we use on our roads or in our batteries are all very specific kinds. Only a small portion of the brine is what you would actually consider safe for human use or consumption.

    With enough energy and chemical processes, we can definitely handle the brine. But it is the expensive cleanup part that no corporation wants to do, and it won’t mean that the byproducts are profitable to manage, despite them requiring to be managed. We’ll get there, but knowing humans we will have to wait until we are well embedded in the disaster to start acting. Water should be sustainable worldwide, not profitable.


  • Energy is not the issue in most cases. We have many ways of producing energy. We use it to go to the store and burn fires with friends on the weekend, water seems to be a good use too. There’s plenty of desalination going on around.

    The issue is the incredibly toxic brine that results from it, that we aren’t sure what to do yet. We have been spending decades looking for easier energy, but not how to work with the brine. It’s almost guaranteed we will need to at some point, would be nice that nobody dies of thirst while we start.








  • Too bad she was sentenced in asbentia. I hope they find her…

    Following the capture of the hospital, the Russians initiated a search for Ukrainian soldiers among the patients. The hospital staff pre-emptively destroyed documents and uniforms of Ukrainian defenders, with the soldiers themselves being officially registered as civilian patients injured in the intense city fighting, the SBU notes.

    However, during a walkthrough of the medical facility with the Russians, Dr. Valentyna Chekhova pointed out the beds where the wounded soldiers were lying and identified a fellow doctor who assisted in concealing Ukrainian soldiers.

    The Russians incarcerated the injured Ukrainian defenders, transporting them to a torture chamber, where the invaders subjected them to gruesome torture, as detailed by the SBU.