Hi there everyone,
Let me start this by saying that this is an honest question. I figure nobody would be better suited to answer my question than a group laser-focused on the negatives of the technology.
I see these types of memes a lot and see statistics of gallons consumed in a lot of articles I read. What I don't understand though is where the water goes that it can't be reclaimed or naturally return from a gas to a liquid.
As a kid(long ago), I was taught of the cycle of rain and the conversion between gases and liquid. It's my understanding that when a liquid is used to cool something, it also follows the same conversion process as it cools.
Could someone explain to me what's going on in this process where the 264 billion gallons of water used in the meme do not return to a liquid state?
I would appreciate any insight into the process that seems to defy this cycle that I am missing. Like I said prior, my knowledge of this process ended in middle school science class so I'm confident that I'm missing something.
Thanks for your time!
even closed loop can only recycle the same water so many times
Industrial closed loops rarely use water. and will last a very long time. besides, lets be generous and just assume its running nothing but water water and some anticorosive additives. it will run on that water for a very long time, and changing out that water once a year is still trillions of gallons less than what would be consumed otherwise.
It's like your car's radiator. They flush their systems occasionally, but it's really not much... at least not locally. Who knows what's going on at the power plant where the electricity is being generated? Arid states should be strictly requiring closed loop systems of data centers and electricity producers alike.