Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?" video.

  1.  @ThinhLe-xt1ky  How many tons of salt do you want with your steak dinner?
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  2.  @tjwoosta  Salting roads is a stupid practice IMO. Coarse sand does the trick just fine without destroying infrastructure, vehicles and damaging the environment.
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  3. And then do WHAT with the salt? No conceivable use for that much. Natural evaporation is causing vastly more 'brine' constantly, it's just distributed evenly. It's not as tho desal has any effect on ocean salinity on average what so ever. Same amount of salt in the oceans so it's just a matter of dilution/distribution.
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  4.  @Ftroo-eu3cx  Even if that's the case your talking about massive pumping costs and pipeline investment making an already expensive water maybe several times more expensive.
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  5. For what purpose? To pile up endless mountains of salt???
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  6. Sure turn Nevada into a sterile salt flat at massive cost. What a thoughtless idea.
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  7.  @cmdr1911  Folks get addicted to the pork, it's a national shame. Let the corporate welfare recipients of my tax dollars defend the practice. It's nothing but throwing resources and money in the toilet. It doesn't even create any energy as it requires about as much energy to produce as it returns. A complete sham of the sort that brings nations to their knees if done extensively enough.
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  8.  Davidfails  Sure there's a LOT of money in salt. hahaha And how are you going to disperse it back in the sea without fantastic costs? Not to mention the extreme expense of drying the brine, scrapping it up, hauling it, etc.
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  9.  @frozenlettuce293  Hard to say.
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  10.  @frozenlettuce293  I definitely prefer to consume ancient sea salt (aka. mined salt) than modern polluted sea salt.
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  11.  @w.wilson5800  Sure we can all consume 100kg of salt per week, humans go extinct, problem solved.
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  12.  @w.wilson5800  Your an idiot.
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  13. It doesn't change the salt content of the oceans AT ALL.
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  14.  @ryankraft9897  Desal has ZERO effect on average salinity, it doesn't increase it AT ALL.
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  15.  @ryankraft9897  Do you really think the ocean is getting shallower from desal?? It isn't. Only two things can increase salinity, more salt or less water. All the water taken out returns to the sea one way or another, the level is NOT DROPPING, and no additional salt is added. So what's the potential issue here? Relative concentration near the brine discharge, that's all. YES areas around plants will be higher, (assuming runoff from the extra fresh water is not also localized which it may well be) NOT THE AVERAGE salinity of the oceans as a whole.
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  16.  @ryankraft9897  Your innitial comment stated ocean salinity would increase, that's not the case.
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  17.  @ryankraft9897  Here's another way to look at it--the desal plant created fresh water soon returns to mix with the brine in the ocean just as tho one were to (pointlessly) mix the manufactured fresh with the brine right out of the plant, zero change in ocean salinity either way. The point in the vid is that the brine may not mix well immediately, becoming stratified AND the runoff (evaporated or whatever) fresh water may not be local to the desal plant causing differences in salinity, not differences in average ocean salinity overall.
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  18.  @ryankraft9897  Do you really think the ocean levels will drop due to desal?? Yes or NO? Quit being obstinate and learn something.
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  19. The vast majority of water consumption is for farming in the USA, terminating the scandalous corn ethanol shameful waste of money and resources would be a far more effective place to start.
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  20.  @cmdr1911  Ethanol isn't the problem per se, it's CORN ethanol that's a disaster. If made from cellulose or even sugar cane like Brazil does it might make sense. Yes your right about all that.
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  21.  @cmdr1911  Didn't we already say that?
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  22. Sure. About a million times more than we can use.
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  23. Insanely energy intensive, that's why it's not used. And then what do you do with the mountains of salt or brine?....that solves nothing even if energy was free.
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  24.  @flackstar007  I don't think there is much of a problem to start with, very localized in any event. It's not as tho there is any change to the salinity of the oceans as a whole. Mixing it with sufficient ocean water at discharge might fix local issues.
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  25. How so?
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  26. About 4 liters.
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  27. Prove yourself right. You expect others to be enslaved to provide for your needs? Get off your ass and get to work....no one owes you sustenance or anything else.
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  28.  @Ftroo-eu3cx  Are you thinking of Utah?
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  29. It won't be after desal.
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  30.  @TheBECK321  Are you sure about 'micro plastics' getting through? Doesn't sound right to me, it's not as tho they are in solution like salts.
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  31. Yes that IS a stupid idea and solves nothing.
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