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AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water (www.forbes.com)
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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days 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.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where would the salt go?

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

brine evaporation ponds

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days 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.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Sea salt as a food additive would get cheaper probably.

[–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sell it for cheap to barbecue houses

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

last I checked salt mining is still an industry