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grueztoday at 12:36 AM4 repliesview on HN

We can't pump saturated salt solution to prevent more salt from being dissolved?


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chabskatoday at 1:50 AM

If you're gonna build a bunch of tanks on the surface to store that saturated salt solutions, you might as well store the oil in those tanks. The point of this salt cavern system is how little infrastructure it needs to store the huge volume of liquid.

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smallmancontrovtoday at 12:44 AM

Seawater is 10% saturated IIRC, so you'd have to make the saturated solution first, and if the easiest way to do that is to dissolve another cavern then using brine doesn't have much of a cost advantage over "use this one until it collapses, then dissolve the rubble or make another."

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sokka_h2otribetoday at 12:39 AM

Hard to find that

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