75 kg rider weight limit? I feel personally attacked.
I feel like 80% of men weigh above that lol
Is the ratio of salt produced as a byproduct of desalination of ocean water out of whack compared to the amount used in battery production?
Sodium is a resource of which there is absolutely no shortage. The stuff is pretty much everywhere.
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 salt flats and salt mines, which are potentially cheaper than desalination (they’re literally just digging up the ground and putting it into a truck), but desalination also has a huge excess of salt that ends up being dumped into the ocean; more sodium demand would be good for the environment.
Iirc, the problem with desalination is that it doesn’t actually produce salt, just a very salty water slurry. So for them to produce usable salt they’d have to dry it out or something. Not that that sounds like it would be particularly difficult, but it’s an extra step.
