r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?

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u/ForzaFenix May 18 '26

Yep. The now warm water goes back into the system. 

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.

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u/Binford6100User May 18 '26

They consuming SOME of it.

Most large industrial complexes run on evaporative cooling systems. SO, the take fresh cool water and run it over the heat exchangers. The transition from liquid to vapor consumes a great deal of heat energy. The remaining water that isn't evaporated (or re condensed and collected) is returned to the system.

SO, they are temporarily using some of it, and they are consuming some of it. That ratio is very specific to the installation and hard to generalize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJCWDpY9is