cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53694832
The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53694832
The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.
Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It’s cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.
Using traditional systems designed for fresh water sure, but there are methods to using high saline water already. Here’s the science . It also likely won’t surprise you to learn that the nations in the Middle East already has high saline evaporation cooling deployed in industrial applications for years now.