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TremendousJudge · 2023-06-20 11:15:46

put all salt making companies out of business, then whatever's left just carry it by train and put it in an old salt mine

SV_BubbleTime | karma 1896 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2021-07-02 15:16:55

Now you’re paying for salt transportation again.

bdonlan | karma 1703 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2011-10-15 17:34:38+00:00

You could purify and sell the salt as table salt, etc.

nielsbot | karma 2572 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2023-09-27 22:45:59

can we just pile it up into a huge salt mountain? and maybe eat some of it?

squarefoot | karma 13102 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2022-08-25 18:09:37

I wonder what they could do with all that salt, as releasing it in the environment isn't exactly safe. Would be there any uses for the huge quantities involved?

newman314 | karma 3766 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2012-01-23 20:37:28+00:00

Salt is no longer sufficient.

dogma1138 | karma 17831 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2018-04-23 02:59:21

We already do it when making salt. We just throw most of the none NaCL salts away.

jartelt | karma 1592 | avg karma 4.11 · | 2019-01-15 17:01:25

I think it's most likely that it would just get buried or piled up somewhere. Salt is not really a high value product, so I wouldn't be surprised if desal plants had to pay people to take the salt from them.

kevstev | karma 1961 | avg karma 4.02 · | 2021-07-02 14:34:50+00:00

Why not just collect the salt, and sell it as... salt? Even if its not ok for cooking, it should be fine for roads? I am sure there are other industrial uses for salt.

theonething | karma 1172 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2023-09-11 13:43:18

Why not sell the leftover salt?

roywiggins | karma 12849 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2014-10-19 19:30:28+00:00

Might cost you more money to get the salt out than you can sell the salt for, though.

Simulacra | karma 2212 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2019-01-15 16:41:26

I think the problem of salt is a much bigger problem than we realize it. It's toxic, you can't burn it for fuel, and you can't really do anything with it except store it. Are there other ways of disposing of salt without repercussions?

imgabe | karma 22656 | avg karma 5.61 · | 2023-09-27 23:11:25

Or just sell it as salt? We use, I don’t know, billions of pounds of salt per year in food production?

pitaj | karma 4013 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2019-10-18 18:38:01+00:00

The issue is that it's not just salt, but contains many other minerals and contaminants.

Probably better to just dump it on the surface of the desert and let it dry up.

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throwaway894345 | karma 15075 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2021-06-09 15:06:25+00:00

I wonder if the salt can be converted into a useful byproduct? Or else if it can be disposed of in an environmentally-friendly way?

jaltekruse | karma 366 | avg karma 3.27 · | 2020-03-04 14:29:19

Might be able to replace the salt with something like fertilizer beads.

jqm | karma 1931 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2015-06-29 00:27:40+00:00

How about just sending the iodine and let them iodize their existing salt supplies?

reizorc | karma 63 | avg karma 4.2 · | 2021-07-02 08:29:51

There's still the issue of what you do with all that salt

quickthrower2 | karma 24182 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2022-12-01 13:31:26

Then salt the earth

52-6F-62 | karma 6159 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2020-02-07 19:12:13+00:00

Undercut the existing suppliers of sea salt?