On: Starship / Super Heavy

[flybrand]

Brine has set waste disposal costs and methods - near the ocean and with active oil wells nearby there are many options.

[SECProto → flybrand]

Yup. Salinity would be 36 ppt, so for every 1000 tonnes of water they need, they'd produce 2 truck loads of salt (so say maybe 20 truckloads of brine). It's a lot easier to truck out and dispose of 20 loads of brine, than to source and truck in 250 loads of fresh water

[babesh → SECProto]

Maybe they can use that salt for the Tesla lithium extraction?

[patrickk → babesh]

Extracting lithium from water is indeed a promising area to keep an eye on: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-54188071