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I'm not usually one to get into eco debates, but can anyone who's knowledgeable in the field tell me whether it's a good idea to build heat plants in places whe
by jakeonthemove 15y ago
I'm not usually one to get into eco debates, but can anyone who's knowledgeable in the field tell me whether it's a good idea to build heat plants in places where they shouldn't be - I mean long term?
The way I see it now is that placing a structure which releases hundreds (thousands?) of kilowatts of heat in the ocean, rivers or arctic ice (as an example) is bad for the ecology - once the place heats up (and it will), it's not going to cool down by itself. This has the potential to rise overall global temperature if enough companies do this. Am I right or way off?
- Maakuth 15y agoThere already is a lot of energy-heavy industry here in the Nordics: paper and steel mills, nuclear power, etc. Having a couple megawatts worth of datacenters is really really minor thing.
- cperciva 15y agoGiven that the energy is coming from hydro power, there's no increase in heat output: The gravitational potential energy of the water was going to be converted into heating the water as it speeds up from flowing downhill and then slows down from friction anyway.