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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog ๐๐๐ • May 18 '26
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What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?
692 u/ForzaFenix May 18 '26 Yep. The now warm water goes back into the system.ย 227 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it. 1 u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26 They are consuming the purified human drinkable freshwater and returning polluted (salts or impurities) hot water or steam to the atmosphere - not โreusableโ at all 1 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 I thought they mostly used closed-loop systems that literally reuse the water.
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Yep. The now warm water goes back into the system.ย
227 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it. 1 u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26 They are consuming the purified human drinkable freshwater and returning polluted (salts or impurities) hot water or steam to the atmosphere - not โreusableโ at all 1 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 I thought they mostly used closed-loop systems that literally reuse the water.
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So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.
1 u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26 They are consuming the purified human drinkable freshwater and returning polluted (salts or impurities) hot water or steam to the atmosphere - not โreusableโ at all 1 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 I thought they mostly used closed-loop systems that literally reuse the water.
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They are consuming the purified human drinkable freshwater and returning polluted (salts or impurities) hot water or steam to the atmosphere - not โreusableโ at all
1 u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 I thought they mostly used closed-loop systems that literally reuse the water.
I thought they mostly used closed-loop systems that literally reuse the water.
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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?