Why can't we use biomass energy and solar to split water from the salt in the wheatbelt .Since a lot of salt goes on reducing icing of roads .Train infrastructure is there , o'connor pipeline is there and there's quite a lot of electricity infrastructure .Biomass to come from salt resistant malles and I like the idea of mining forestry in firebreaks (in conjunction with some burn offs) as a new fire mitigation paradigm.
Mining Salt From The Wheatbelt Instead Of The Ocean
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Posted 05 May 2017 - 09:48 PM
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Posted 06 May 2017 - 12:57 PM
But I was wondering if a farmer could set this up as niche, high-earning product.
http://www.collectiv...himalayan-salt/
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Posted 06 May 2017 - 04:38 PM
salt for eating accounts for a miniscule amount of the salt market .Targeting commercial applications .It would be good if putting the steam through a heat exchanger to reclaim water making some farmers a bit more drought resistant permanent pasture for fire breaks and feed .I can't understand why biomass isn't proposed more heavily as a renewable .Wildfires being a release of stored solar energy that is potentially very destructive .Suppose hoping government dullards might get creative with the accounting to back this is a bit of an ask.
Edited by boops, 06 May 2017 - 04:43 PM.
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Posted 07 May 2017 - 08:05 AM
On a commercial scale I don't follow how this could compete. Below are the links I looked up. Was interesting to see how they precipitate out the salts they want and don't want. Learnt something new.
http://www.pir.sa.go..._production.pdf
http://www.salt.com.au/os.php
I think with the use of biomass and fire breaks I'm missing something here as this seemed small scale?
This below was interesting but I hear what you are saying that it is small use. I guess why I'm interested there is we looked at farming and decided it seemed second or third income sources were useful.
http://www.lakedebor...uct Information
Off-hand it seems feasible to do. If a company could get a workable idea together I'd be willing to look at putting money into it.
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Posted 07 May 2017 - 09:44 AM
Thanks for that that was good .Particularly interested in the market for salting roads . The accounting would be complicated if it even works .Potentially producing power ,salt and water .I'm assuming workable heat exchangers and all sorts of stuff no doubt a lot of technical difficulties .But it would be nice to have another tool to manage wheatbelt salinity issues.
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Posted 07 May 2017 - 07:45 PM
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