• Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    It’s very cool that you tend to believe them, but I’d like to understand how something in a closed loop is “evaporating” - that is physically impossible. I once heard they are planning to build datacenters in the ocean, but even then evaporation is unlikely as the datacenters won’t boil the ocean. The only way to make this work is if they submerge it in a small pond/lake or just flood the building, and keep dumping water into it - which is stupid aswell because there are MUCH better materials for that that are NOT conductive, like special oils, which are not water based.

    So ye, believing researchers is one thing, but believing something that physically is not possible because it fits your narrative is stupid.

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      5 hours ago

      Evaporation, is my understanding. Even sealed containers have evaporation in heat conditions.

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        4 hours ago

        I mean, yes, it can evaporate - inside the loop. There is no “loss”. If you fill a container half way with water, seal it airtight, and boil it, the water inside it is converted to gas. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone, you can just cool it down to convert the gas back to a liquid. There is no “loss” as that would violate the law of conservation of mass, which explicitly states that mass cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system through ordinary physical or chemical processes.

        However you twist it - a loss of water is completely impossible in a closed loop.

        To all the people downvoting without explaining - drop me an explanation instead of just doing that. I’m more than willing to accept that I’m wrong if someone can just explain to me how I’m wrong.