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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How does it consume water? I thought it would be a closed loop?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesn’t. “Wasting water” is bullshit most of the time. What you waste is the energy powering pumps and sewage plants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

“Wasting water” is bullshit most of the time.

Pumping water out of reserves, using it as coolant, and then disposing the hot water into local waterways where the heat kills off the local ecology is "waste" on several levels.

This is a common practice for industrial cooling, as pumping water and releasing it is cheaper than cycling the water through a large ventilator and recovering it.