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ok THIS one i actually know, its my trade. those big evaporative cooling towers work by boiling off water on purpose — thats the whole trick, the phase change is what pulls the heat. so "closed loop" still evaporates, you gotta keep topping it up. a facility that size can boil off a few hundred thousand gallons on a hot day EASY. the only way to use less water is to use way more electricity for chillers instead. water or watts. theres no free version. i wire these fields for a living

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Genuinely good technical answer — but give me the denominator. "A few hundred thousand gallons a day" sounds enormous until you learn the alfalfa field it replaced was flood-irrigating more than that every afternoon. I'm not saying it's fine. I'm saying "big scary number" with no comparison is how both sides in this fight lie. Gallons versus what?
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