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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Put it on french fries in the summer, and the roads in the winter.
Edit: This was a joke guys
It's not nice and neat table salt. It usually comes to the form of an extremely toxic saline sludge. With who knows what other ingredients inside of it. It's a major problem with this kind of thing. If you use it on an industrial scale a scale large enough to provide water for a city for instance, then you're going to have enough output that will probably destroy whatever water source you're extracting water from. Better hope no one fishes in that ocean, cuz they all going to die.
Great fucking idea. Totally has zero issues with runoff. No one's looking for an alternative because salting the road is so fucking awesome
You have good points, but why so rude? Especially since as @jadero@mander.xyz showed that while they might be reasonable concerns, doesn't mean there's no solution for that, or that no one would think of that.
Because this kind of thinking is dangerous. It pulls attention and funding away from real solutions like water usage efficiency and reclamation