If freezing salt water produces freshwater ice, why is desalinization such a difficult problem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2wafIzuvlI

I was watching the above minute physics video, and they indicated in a brief one sentence line that saltwater freezes into freshwater ice. That got me thinking.

Under what circumstances could you actually freeze salt into ice? To make salt ice?

  • @[email protected]
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    fedilink
    182 months ago

    It’s not that desalinisation is “hard”, you could just boil the water for example. It’s that it’s extremely energy intensive and complex to setup a process that’s both repeatable in industrial quantities and can produce enough flow to satisfy demand.

    • @cheese_greater
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      124 days ago

      Didnt the Israelis figure out some revolutionary efficient process to do this?