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So if I understand this correctly you are adding this tech to existing cooling towers? I don't see this answered on the page, but: what cooling towers do you h
by hannob 6y ago
So if I understand this correctly you are adding this tech to existing cooling towers?
I don't see this answered on the page, but: what cooling towers do you have in mind? I don't have any statistics at hand, but my guess would be most cooling towers are coal power plants and other fossil fuel infrastructure. This seems problematic as you're creating an incentive to keep fossil fuel infrastructure.
Also industrial heat and heat in general is in itself something that needs to be decarbonized and one of the best options here is to re-use "waste heat". So ideally even if you have non-fossil processes with cooling towers you'll likely want to change that.
(Also from what I'm aware of carbon capture itself is something that needs a lot of heat and existing projects tend to want to use waste heat.)
- acidburnNSA 6y agoIdeally they'd go on low carbon cooling towers e.g. from nuclear plants.