re: Remember the Lake Travis going dry because of global warming fear porn?

You should have lived it with all the screechers here.

Having said that, the Highland Lakes system, which Travis is downstream of, was designed and built between 1938 and 1951. In 1950, Austin's population was ~130,000. Now the MSA is in the millions. So we will run low again. Has nothing to do with "climate change" and everything to do with the impossibility of doing something like the Highland Lakes or the TVA Dam system in today's world of endless lawsuits and red tape.

It’s full due to more huge floods in the hill country lately.

As the atmosphere warms, it holds more water leading to more severe droughts. But when the dam occasionally breaks we get events like the hill country has seen the last 2 months.

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Just like most cars, they use a radiator system and cool and recirculate / not down the drain.

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That is just the data center end, but what about the power generation end.

Some power plants use steam to drive turbines and use water resources in keeping that cool to keep the power flowing.

Now some of the newer natural gas generating stations don't use steam to drive their generators. I think that is how the new plant in Houma will be built. The old plant that was destroyed for Ida used steam turbines, the new ones will be jet turbines.

Just some food for thought.

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That is just the data center end, but what about the power generation end.

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There is residential water use, and then there’s industrial water use. Power generation for data centers does not fall outside the mean of regular industrial use. These data centers provided massive resources to local governments to assist and support their communities.

Quit reading Facebook nonsense.