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Seawater is highly corrosive, you would be asking for greatly increased costs for resistant materials, and even then time and money needed for maintenance would be enormous.Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View PostNo, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Plus he clearly does not care about leaving behind a salted wasteland. Roman style!“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Do you need freshwater for hydraulic fracking?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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What you do with the used water would be a significant problem, salted or not. Not insurmountable, but significant.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Leave it in the ground. Cleaning up costs money.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Leave the crops in the fields. Harvesting and planting costs money.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I meant leave the polluted water in the ground.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Really not a good idea. It's going to come back up eventually, and it's better to do so under controlled circumstances.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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But like I said, cleaning up costs money.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Business costs money. You have to spend money to make money.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Cleaning up just costs money. It doesn't make money. It's cheaper to deny that the polluted water is bad. We'll call it "freedom water".
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Salt changes the surfactant properties of the other chemical additions to the water. Could be done, but would require reformulating the mixes. Also would leave a plant less wasteland behind.Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Isn't it already a desert wasteland?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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