Subj : Re: Forget a hosepipe ban - U
To   : Mike Powell
From : Rug Rat
Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 07:06 pm

On Thu 21-Aug-2025  9:21a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 said to Rob Mccart:

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

Evaporative cooling towers?  Yes, some water can be reused, but by their very name, a vast quantity is lost into the atmosphere due evaporation. A Google search says depending on the system between 1 and 30% is reused.

The shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, and I am sure other sea water, and river fed plants did not use them either, as they were just discharged back into their source.

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