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AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it scales fine (roughly linear at large scale), people just don't want to pay the energy cost because they think farms need cheap water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where would the salt go?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

brine evaporation ponds

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where does the salt go after the water evaporates from the brine? You can't just dump it back in the ocean, the concentration destroys wildlife.

Landfill? Salt deserts? It's gotta go somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sell it for cheap to barbecue houses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sea salt as a food additive would get cheaper probably.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

last I checked salt mining is still an industry