Various shaded Sodium Lakes at San Francisco Bay

Diposting oleh fawaid on Rabu, 13 Juni 2012


If you ever fly over San Francisco Bay, be sure to fellow out of the screen to get a glance of one of the most amazingly shaded scenery - the salt water loss ponds managed by Cargill, Inc.

Salt water loss ponds are superficial synthetic ponds designed to generate salt from sea water or other brines. The sea water or brine is fed into large ponds and water is attracted out through natural water loss which allows the salt to be therefore gathered. During the five years it takes for the bay water to older into salt brine, it is shifted from one water loss lake to another. In one more levels, when the brine is completely over loaded, it is injected to the crystalizer where a bed of salt 5 to 8 inches wide wide is ready for collect.
Read more »

{ 0 komentar... read them below or add one }

Posting Komentar