jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoResearchers explore mining seawater for critical metalsgrist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkResearchers explore mining seawater for critical metalsgrist.orgjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareShizu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAnd in 10 years: Fishes are dying due to the severe lack of nutrition in sea water after humans exploited it for mining of metals. We’re not learning of past mistakes.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agolol and what else this process is already in use in dead sea chemical works and it’s about separating magnesium, just this time it uses desalination brine as an input so it gives some table salt, and depending on what you want it to output, potassium chloride, magnesium salts or metal, gypsum, lithium Returned brine is damaging to seafloor so returning less salt is a net improvement
And in 10 years: Fishes are dying due to the severe lack of nutrition in sea water after humans exploited it for mining of metals. We’re not learning of past mistakes.
lol and what else
this process is already in use in dead sea chemical works and it’s about separating magnesium, just this time it uses desalination brine as an input
so it gives some table salt, and depending on what you want it to output, potassium chloride, magnesium salts or metal, gypsum, lithium
Returned brine is damaging to seafloor so returning less salt is a net improvement