Totally. But what if we left it where we found it?
I get the economics of the situation (capitalism, etc) , I’m just saying…if there is salt already safely and naturally found underground or on a salt flat, why not leave it there and use this byproduct salt that we don’t know what to do with?
There are plenty of mining processes where salt is a by-product. That goes for desalination as well, of course. Salt for batteries will always be a tiny percentage of overall usage so this is not really a significant use case.
Totally. But what if we left it where we found it?
I get the economics of the situation (capitalism, etc) , I’m just saying…if there is salt already safely and naturally found underground or on a salt flat, why not leave it there and use this byproduct salt that we don’t know what to do with?
There are plenty of mining processes where salt is a by-product. That goes for desalination as well, of course. Salt for batteries will always be a tiny percentage of overall usage so this is not really a significant use case.