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To: upchuck

Coal powered? What are the cooling towers for?


40 posted on 10/07/2022 10:43:19 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Tucker39

The cooling towers on any steam/thermal power plant coal, nuclear, oil, etc are to condense the spent steam. Even though all of the useful work has been extracted from the steam it is still gaseous steam and requires 540 cal per gram to condense back into water. Until it dumps that heat it will remain steam. The cooling towers take away that 540 cal per gm and allow it to go back to the liquid state.


53 posted on 10/07/2022 1:24:23 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Tucker39
Coal powered? What are the cooling towers for?

Other than effect, have no idea. Perhaps you should ask the person who drew the cartoon. /s

68 posted on 10/08/2022 7:50:25 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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