The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at Hoover Dam

Re:The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at ... by baxuz on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:41PM (#32489351)

I'm not talking about dumping the warm water downstream, but using evaporative cooling as an alternative solution.

Cooling towers don't recirculate the drawn water back to the river as far as I'm aware. They only draw the water in the basin depletes. Looking at the sources, 2% of it is lost to evaporation, the rest condenses back on the bottom.

So it doesn't actually draw that much water, and it doesn't dump the warm water downstream.

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Re:The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at ... by mickdeek86 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:26PM (#32504925)

90% humidity in Hamburg and similar throughout Germany as of writing this. Is it feasible to site plants on the ocean and upgrade HVDC to the interior of the continents?

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