Comments on: UCLA's Nanotunnels Could Lower the Cost of Desalination http://cleantechnica.com/2010/04/11/uclas-nanotunnels-could-lower-the-cost-of-desalination/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: xoussef http://cleantechnica.com/2010/04/11/uclas-nanotunnels-could-lower-the-cost-of-desalination/#comment-9224 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:45:53 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=8179#comment-9224 Dumping brine in the oceans will certainly rise the salinity in the dumping sites, but if carefully planned with gradual dispersion in strong marine currents, local biosphere won’t suffer.

The water will eventually return to the oceans through evaporation, so I don’t think there will be any change in the salinity of the oceans overall.

]]> By: Mac McDougal http://cleantechnica.com/2010/04/11/uclas-nanotunnels-could-lower-the-cost-of-desalination/#comment-9223 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:27:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=8179#comment-9223 Am I the only person who worries about large-scale increases in the ocean’s salinity? Desalination is an idea that starts bad and gets worse from there. I hope the world will spend more time working on root causes. Negative population growth would be a huge help, and not just in this arena.

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