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• SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The water things still baffles me out. Like…just…cycle it. It’s a heat exchange system.

  What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it?

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Evaporative cooling. They’re trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they’re cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.

    The amount of heat generated is so large they can’t properly cool it with a closed loop system.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And clean water just reduces duct maintenance costs.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system,

  Not the other things, though.

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  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except the ones feeling the hurt the most are the little guys

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agreed.

      One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad.

      My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we’ll have one good thing, whilst if we don’t, we’ll have nothing good at all.

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