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Energy doesn't disappear, but obviously it moves from useful forms to unuseful forms. Same with water. Your sarcasm just comes off as naive arrogance.
by rel_ic 1y ago
Energy doesn't disappear, but obviously it moves from useful forms to unuseful forms. Same with water. Your sarcasm just comes off as naive arrogance.
- monero-xmr 1y agoThe water is gone? Where did it go?
- mulmen 1y agoConverted to steam and carried out of the local ecosystem by wind. From the perspective of anyone downstream the water is gone.
- monero-xmr 1y agoReally? All water that goes into the air is gone forever? And then the wind blows it away? Incredible
- mulmen 1y agoWhy are you being so antagonistic? Are you ok? > Water? I didn’t realize that when you use water it disappears from the universe, or even from earth, or even from the local ecosystem Your own standard includes the local ecosystem.
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- luqtas 1y agoyou should educate yourself both at the ecological impact of data centers and the economics of running a water facility. it's just too simplistic to skim down 'water' used into a thing that turns it into rain and then it's captured to be used again. good luck with your next naive comment saying something like: rain is almost distilled water and treatment isn't required, so it can go into data centers directly don't also forget people living nearby these facilities constantly facing drains due to the HIGH requirement of a server some read: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological... https://aucgroup.net/water-treatment-plant-costs/ https://aucgroup.net/water-treatment-plant-costs/
- monero-xmr 1y agoSame argument people use against cows and almonds. The water is used and recycled. This is the weakest possible environmental argument you can possibly make. I’ll wait for the citizens to riot about their “wasted” water
- mulmen 1y agoIf we can freely recycle water how little of it would we need on Earth before we would see an ecological change?
- monero-xmr 1y agoCan you explain why Mesopotamia was once an agricultural Mecca but is now an arid desert? Or what human event caused the little ice age? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age Do you really believe all climate change in world history, which was dramatic and highly disruptive, was human caused?
- mulmen 1y ago> Can you explain why Mesopotamia was once an agricultural Mecca but is now an arid desert? I'm not familiar, so no, not off the top of my head. Do you? > Or what human event caused the little ice age? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age If you are asking for human factors only then according to your link: "Decreases in the human population (such as from the massacres by Genghis Khan, the Black Death and the epidemics emerging in the Americas upon European contact)." > Do you really believe all climate change in world history, which was dramatic and highly disruptive, was human caused? I said nothing of the sort.
- monero-xmr 1y agoThe climate changed because it’s always changing. Humans adapted, but they didn’t cause it
- mulmen 1y agoHow do you think that works exactly? That data centers cause more rain than would otherwise fall? How is that not an ecological change? Where does it come from?
- ath3nd 1y agoThis is such a bad, uninformed and genuinely pitiful take that it's my duty to address it. I live in Poland. There are currently a huge amount of hydrological problems all across the country and parts of it are desertifying. There are numerous articles and scientific journals about it: https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/05/29/drought-in-poland https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/0... So why is my country becoming a desert? And what if I don't want the scarce amount of water that's remaining in our rivers to be used by a water hungry datacenter? Is that unhinged?