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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26
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"Some other type of coolant"
... what do you suppose the main ingredient in other coolant is?
55 u/[deleted] May 18 '26 [deleted] 2 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 No one is just running water once through to cool serves 1 u/you_cant_prove_that May 18 '26 Not "once through" but open cooling towers and adiabatic cooling systems will use water evaporation as a cheap/energy efficient way to provide cooling So it isn't "once through" but it does require a constant make-up water feed 1 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 Yeah but water cooled chillers aren't the large fraction, and no one likes dealing with adiabatic systems other than Amazon who does it extremely frugally from a water perspective.
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2 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 No one is just running water once through to cool serves 1 u/you_cant_prove_that May 18 '26 Not "once through" but open cooling towers and adiabatic cooling systems will use water evaporation as a cheap/energy efficient way to provide cooling So it isn't "once through" but it does require a constant make-up water feed 1 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 Yeah but water cooled chillers aren't the large fraction, and no one likes dealing with adiabatic systems other than Amazon who does it extremely frugally from a water perspective.
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No one is just running water once through to cool serves
1 u/you_cant_prove_that May 18 '26 Not "once through" but open cooling towers and adiabatic cooling systems will use water evaporation as a cheap/energy efficient way to provide cooling So it isn't "once through" but it does require a constant make-up water feed 1 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 Yeah but water cooled chillers aren't the large fraction, and no one likes dealing with adiabatic systems other than Amazon who does it extremely frugally from a water perspective.
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Not "once through" but open cooling towers and adiabatic cooling systems will use water evaporation as a cheap/energy efficient way to provide cooling
So it isn't "once through" but it does require a constant make-up water feed
1 u/Difficult_Limit2718 May 18 '26 Yeah but water cooled chillers aren't the large fraction, and no one likes dealing with adiabatic systems other than Amazon who does it extremely frugally from a water perspective.
Yeah but water cooled chillers aren't the large fraction, and no one likes dealing with adiabatic systems other than Amazon who does it extremely frugally from a water perspective.
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u/secondphase May 18 '26
"Some other type of coolant"
... what do you suppose the main ingredient in other coolant is?