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Surely the salt falling on the farmland would have some kind of deleterious effects, right? I imagine you’re not trying to grow sea cucumbers in this scenario, and I’m not sure most land plants would be crazy about a ton of salt.

Just ask the Carthaginians…

Guessing that you know something I don’t here, though.

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I believe that when every spec of salt creates a far larger water droplet - and the overall concentration in rain ends up tiny.

If anything, doing lots of this might reduce the salt concentration in soils, due to increased rainfall.

That’s probably what the antediluvian civilization said before they tried it in North Africa! ;)

I guess what I’m forgetting is that the water has a chance to wash salt away back to the ocean. But how much salt does one drip of water absorb? What if the spec of salt that starts in the water droplet is as much as the droplet can wash away?

I suppose it must be slowly becoming clear that I have no idea what I’m talking about (save for a nickel worth of Roman history).

This is what happened with Aral Sea.

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