In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:58:24 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > Sqwertz > wrote:
> >
> >> Evaporation ponds are much less labor-intensive (and "Greener" since
> >> that's the new buzz word for the upcoming decade), but take a lot
> >> longer to harvest and do not have perpetual output.
> >
> > The SF Bay evaporation ponds have virtually perpetual output as the Bay
> > is connected to the Pacific Ocean, which is fairly big, and is connected
> > to all the other oceans. We aren't going to run out of salt in my area.
>
> I didn't mean perpetual in that way. I meant "constantly". I
> should have said "year round", or something. You probably should
> have figured that out by the context.

If I was smarter, maybe I would have, but I really thought you meant
that certain small bodies of salt water would eventually run out. My
bad. It's certainly true about not every body of water supporting
evaporation year round. It rains on the SF Bay, especially during the
winter.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA