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When the plants were planned and designed no-one imagined that summer temps of +40C were going to be usual. It's great there are "trivial solutions" but they n

• masklinn 4y ago
  > When the plants were planned and designed no-one imagined that summer temps of +40C were going to be usual. More problematically this lack of imagination was then used to save cost by not building cooling towers: the plants with such issues are generally those next to large rivers for which it was assumed the river flow and temperature would always be sufficient, so the expense and visibility of cooling towers could be done away with.