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Where does the water go afterwards? Is it evaporated? Sewer?
by bombcar 7mo ago
Where does the water go afterwards? Is it evaporated? Sewer?
- trollbridge 7mo agoEvaporated. Given how the water cycle works, it should be expected it will be precipitated back as rain.
- mylies43 7mo agoWith the catching being of course that it won't end up where it was being pulled from.
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- fc417fc802 7mo agoI believe evaporative cooling is the norm (thus my "possibly many times that" remark doesn't apply) however theoretically they could provide hot water as a utility or (as you say) just dump it into the sewer. If located next to a river or the ocean they could conceivably dissipate it that way but I'm not aware of any examples. It's the sort of externality that could be solved with a well placed megaproject. A related question to my mind is why we're building such expensive strategic assets in the open rather than under a mountain.