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adarkmethodicrash t1_j0ikaws wrote

Reply to comment by ijustlurkhereintheAM in Oregon city drops fight to keep Google water use private by ChocolateTsar

Most of it is used for evaporative cooling. So it goes into the air.

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TenderfootGungi t1_j0j9xk4 wrote

If that is true, then it would be possible to cool in other ways. A massive air cooler would work, but probably so big it would not be practical. Power plants build a lake. They then pump water from the lake, cool, then return the warm water to the lake. At least her in KS, the fish and the fishermen love it.

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Has_hog t1_j0jetwu wrote

Rivers heat up by dumping back warm water. That is not good and the fish do not "love it" -- neither do fishermen lol. This is extremely well known and there is even a word for it, it's called "thermal pollution".

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hithisispaul t1_j0jjdpo wrote

Well they said lake, not river.

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upvoatsforall t1_j0jsphs wrote

Fish need very specific water temperatures to spawn in. Artificially heated lakes would require warmer climate fish for something like this to work. It would be interesting to see how it works.

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hithisispaul t1_j0jx9lm wrote

I'm aware. The example given was a man made lake beside a powerplant in KS, so my guess is that this is a specific place where this has worked. I doubt they're trying to stock it with rainbows or brook trout.

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rep- t1_j0jl06g wrote

Warm water is already destroying our salmon runs/spawns up here in the PNW..

Our main fish even in lakes are steelhead and trout and neither of them farewell in warm water.. it's why the south doesn't have a trout fishery.

But I do agree a cooling pond(contained) would be the way to go

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SmokeyUnicycle t1_j0knjww wrote

oh they "farewell" alright

edit: this is a joke that the fish die, "farewell" is very different than "fare well" lol

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