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I don't see why water used for cooling can't later be used as irrigation water

• homero 7y ago
  It might need chemicals so it doesn't rust or freeze pipes
• pmontra 7y ago
  Do they have or are they building the infrastructure to do that?
• MaximumYComb 7y ago
  Or even put through a system to dissipate heat and reused
• tyingq 7y ago
  It evaporates in the chiller towers. https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~sren/project/water/img/water_cooling.jpg https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~sren/project/water/img/water_cool...
  • userbinator 7y ago
    ...and then comes down as rain somewhere else, eventually.
    • LeifCarrotson 7y ago
      So it is being reused for irrigation!
    • adrianN 7y ago
      If that somewhere else is too far away it won't help refill South Carolina's aquifers.
      • tomatotomato37 7y ago
        Charleston is over the Florida aquifer system, which is one of the largest aquifer systems in the world since the peninsula is essentially a huge sedimentary filter that's saturated by really aggressive storms on a seasonal basis
    • auiya 7y ago
      > somewhere else Typically the ocean.