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Does anyone have a solution by now on what to do with the millions of tons of salt which are produced by desalinating water?

I read that right now the salt is just dumped somewhere being a huge burden for flora and fauna.

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Store it in salt domes for use on U.S. roads for the inevitable ice age-level snow removal that we will have to contend with. Seriously though, i would guess that this remaining salt is likely not suitable for food preparation...but can't it be used for salting roads in winter? Or, perhaps, maybe in molten salt reactors/energy storage systems?

My guess it is dumped back into the sea which will cause a seriously high salt concentrations close to the dumping site. However it’s net effect on salivation levels in the oceans overall will be neutral since all the fresh water produced will likely end up back in the sea.

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