The water is for sure going up there with help, it won’t come back down without help in equal measure, it’s dynamics are completely spun out
Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
taps the fact that electricity is a steam reaction and even if you don’t see it, the electricity you’re using is made by decompressing water into vapor, whether by burning coal through turbines/boiled wind from water sources creating wind power/ even nuclear reactors are often a boiling water reaction going through turbines, creating a net loss of ‘water’ if we don’t have natural condensation utilities to convert ‘air’
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
that water usually goes through a heat exchanger in a closed loop. there’s a reason most power plants are built by lakes
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
If it’s truly a closed loop, why do you need a lake, a true closed loop has zero need for local water sources, else there’s some sort of negative that they’re compensating for which, in case of local water sources, there’s not enough infrastructure if any of that water leaves the system faster than it enters
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
to be the other end of the heat exchanger?
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
Water exchange above large bodies of water causes thermal dynamic exchanges deliberating speeds of wind currents
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
that’s not really a big factor.
Thoath@leminal.space 2 days ago
Yeah because you’ve measured the water intake and export of every large body of water I forgot you’re obviously an expert who knows how to read when a data center takes more water than a town, love your stern optimism, maybe like, wander off somewhere else so you feel important in your views, because it ain’t with me here bud