Subj : Re: Forget a hosepipe ban
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 09:21 am

> Yes, I was going to mention the other day that a system creating so
> much heat it needs to be water cooled also likely makes so much heat
> that it couldn't be easily recycled unless there were vast reserves
> of it. Much simpler to just dump the hot water and bring in fresh
> cooler water.

While they are not a closed system in that they need to account for
evaporation, don't many power plants (nuclear and some coal) have cooling
towers to cool the water and presumably reuse it?

Mike

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