Wait, desalination causes seawater temperatures to rise?
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Yes, with several common processes
I was curious too. The article mentions that Dubai’s old reverse osmosis systems rely on flash distillation which adds a lot of heat to the system and thus the brine being returned to the gulf waters.
“Unlike reverse osmosis, which removes salt and other contaminants by pushing water through a semipermeable membrane, multistage flash distillation relies on heat. Decades ago, when the U.A.E. began exploring desalination, the technology could better handle the Gulf’s high salinity, though reverse osmosis can now do the same. And although both technologies create brine, the byproduct of multistage flash distillation is far hotter, further disrupting the ecosystem.“
closed system, the less water there is to disperse heat energy it gains from sunlight/underwater vents, the more heat energy the water retains. it's basic mathematics.
It seems like you do not know how the water cycle works, even though you posted about this theory twice.
yes, please do explain about the water cycle in and off a desert peninsula surrounded for thousands of miles by nothing but salt water and deserts. you're only going to need to explain it to me once though, lol, don't forget the thermodyanics
As it turns out, Earths ecosphere is a close system surrounded by lifeless cold space. One action, begets another equal and opposite reaction. When you reduce the amount of water volume into a system being heated by the sun and underwater thermal vents, that water will get and remain hotter, longer. I mean, who knew, right.