Posted on 08/07/2014 7:01:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
That's what struck me as particularly egregious in this latest crisis. Where's the explanation as to how the water used in energy production is wasted? Just because an industry consumes a resource, that doesn't mean said resource is destroyed in the process. After all, if anything could ever be thought of as renewable it's water.
It's consumed then released back into the environment but even if contaminated evaporation separates it from the dissolved contaminants. That's basic science.
This latest alarm is all based, albeit subtly, on the presupposition that man-made global climate change is real. That's what this is really about: we have to change our ways or else the entire planet is going to become as dry as a desert, as the heat rises and evaporates all the water away.
If they want to promote this man-made climate change clap-trap at least have the honesty to admit it out in the open. Then again, these are leftists here, I doubt honesty is in their vocabulary.
Desalinization.
Last I checked both east and west of us is a big puddle of water. Not a single nuclear powered desal plant anywhere. Better to let billiones die and save the delta smelt and snowy plover.
Professor Sovacool of Airhead er Aarhus University of course has all the answers. He’s the smartest guy in the world. Let’s do what the brilliant prof. says. (snicker)
That’s what’s never discussed in these chicken little “all the water is evaporating” doomsday scenarios. Right now, NOW, desalination is economically not feasible. But if naturally fresh water becomes scarce enough (and that’s a big if in of itself) we do have such technology and it will then be economically feasible.
The oceans are pretty huge. I don’t think we’ll ever use THAT much water in thousands of years!
Wonder how much tax payer money these shysters get for coming up with this crap?
I believe the water used for cooling the power plants goes up in vapor and comes back down in the form of rain just like natural heat caused vapor.
Much more water is used for irrigating farms, do we need to quit eating also?
Oh, BS!! Once a utility converts water to steam and runs it through a turbine, it exhausts the spent steam into the atmosphere, thereby returning it for reuse. The only way to “destroy” water is to convert it to energy in a thermonuclear reaction. Otherwise, it just keeps recycling. That’s what evaporation and condensation are all about.
That's why London doesn't exist anymore. Oh, ... wait, ... that didn't happen did it?
There was a thread a couple of weeks ago about this issue. This post had some very interesting information:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3181628/posts?page=104#104
Like when you drink 3 cups of coffee the liquid is only borrowed.
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