How does a cooling tower work?

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  • Опубліковано 3 гру 2024

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  • @Monsoozi
    @Monsoozi Рік тому +88

    Always wondered how the cloud machine worked!

  • @aresinterceptor
    @aresinterceptor Рік тому +372

    Its 2 am and it's perfect time to learn how cooling towers work!

  • @bananafoneable
    @bananafoneable Рік тому +89

    I had no idea... I thought it was dangerous. It's literally just water vaper

  • @shawnganske8731
    @shawnganske8731 Рік тому +50

    Funny how nuclear energy is just a fancy version of steam power lol, i feel cheated!

    • @SubVet84
      @SubVet84 Рік тому +15

      It 100% is steam power. It just using a more expensive and more efficient fuel source. This is how it was explained in the submarine service when describing how it provides power and propulsion, “Hot rock make steam, steam make go.”

    • @rpungello
      @rpungello 5 місяців тому +3

      the majority of power generation is just variations on boiling water to make steam to spin a turbine.

    • @spaceguy564
      @spaceguy564 4 місяці тому +1

      @@rpungello i think hydro power is the only one to spin turbines with cold water

    • @CimbomFanFiction
      @CimbomFanFiction 3 місяці тому +1

      @@spaceguy564boggles my mind how hydro power is still the most inefficient and least used power source. Between the sun wind and ocean waves we should have energy coming out our asses

    • @TheGreatBrownBoy
      @TheGreatBrownBoy 2 місяці тому

      @@CimbomFanFictionIt’s all about efficiency. They all have major downsides that make them impractical. Nuclear was always our best option. Conspiracy or not but the big fish want us to use fossil fuel.

  • @aoyuki1409
    @aoyuki1409 3 місяці тому +3

    the evaporation process absorbs a large amount of heat energy to turn the super hot water into hot water vapor. this means that the hot water vapor will not be 100C, because 100C of water has less energy than 100C of hot vapor of the same amount. basically in the process of hot water vaporizing, it converted some heat energy to phase change into gas form, essentially making the discharge less harmful to any passerby (unless you're inside the cooling tower)

  • @nalo1728
    @nalo1728 7 місяців тому +5

    started youtube with watching wildnout . now im here 4 hrs later . i need to sleep now it's 3am

  • @TheClumsyChicken
    @TheClumsyChicken 2 роки тому +17

    Thanks you saved my grades

  • @anatoliisamoilenko7390
    @anatoliisamoilenko7390 10 місяців тому +2

    Thank you

  • @tstahler5420
    @tstahler5420 4 місяці тому +1

    As usual the comment section didn't disappoint. 😂
    Oh, you were serious. That's even funnier. 😂😂

  • @Moneygrip
    @Moneygrip 3 роки тому +18

    Ah so it is an evaporative cooler

  • @SubVet84
    @SubVet84 Рік тому +13

    My submarine didn’t have a cooling tower. If you’re already using the river, why not skip the cooling tower?

    • @DavidKohout
      @DavidKohout Рік тому

      Efficiency probably

    • @mattharper588
      @mattharper588 11 місяців тому +9

      If it is not a big enough body of water you do not want to discharge hot water into it because it is not good for the environment and aquatic life

    • @mipuist
      @mipuist 4 місяці тому

      Not enough demand for free boiled fish meals down the river I guess. 🥸

  • @muskegonboi
    @muskegonboi 3 місяці тому

    At work bored, may as well learn!

  • @TheDaveRout
    @TheDaveRout 9 місяців тому +1

    I’ve ever understood why they dont put the hot water back through the system rather than heating from cold again

    • @ayeklutch
      @ayeklutch 5 місяців тому

      The water that is cooled by the tower doesn't actually go into the reactor. It is pumped to a tank to surround a convoluted pipe that has hot steam in it so the steam inside the pipe system can condense to liquid water which is actually trapped inside the reactor and doesn't evaporate or anything. They basically use water to cool more water inside pipes

    • @sylviaisgod6947
      @sylviaisgod6947 Місяць тому

      ​@@ayeklutchYou don't know what you're talking about

    • @placeholdername0000
      @placeholdername0000 26 днів тому

      Because after the steam has gone through the turbine it is at a low pressure. It must therefore be cooled to condense. But in order to make high temperature steam you need a much higher temperature. So there is heat, but it is at a too low temperature.

  • @jaybling9475
    @jaybling9475 Рік тому

    Why don't they put the hot water from the condenser back into the river?

    • @babyapple_
      @babyapple_ Рік тому +5

      the fish gonna die

    • @mattharper588
      @mattharper588 11 місяців тому +5

      If it’s not a big enough body of water you do not want to discharge hot water back into it because it will harm the environment and aquatic life edit power plants that are built around the oceans and the Great Lakes discharge back into the source because it will not have a inverse effect on the body of water

  • @youtubeaccount6539
    @youtubeaccount6539 2 роки тому +38

    People are so dramatic about these

    • @rouchar
      @rouchar 2 роки тому +1

      People are mostly idiots, so... 😛

    • @fishyfish2935
      @fishyfish2935 2 місяці тому

      Movies are mostly at fault for this. And poorly designed reactors, making people think they are dangerous. They are the safest form of energy production, it's really just a big steam engine

  • @sebrr
    @sebrr 3 місяці тому

    hell yeah

  • @yrezza
    @yrezza 2 місяці тому +1

    2024 here?

  • @saurabhbhushan1714
    @saurabhbhushan1714 2 місяці тому

    I used to think they were chimneys

  • @Tommythegamerlad
    @Tommythegamerlad 5 місяців тому +1

    I love nuclear power

  • @AlmaRamirez-j4e
    @AlmaRamirez-j4e Місяць тому

    What is that cooling tower doing

  • @Subuzy
    @Subuzy 8 місяців тому +1

    why not just just put more turbines in the tower to capture the rising energy🤔
    edit: the energy from mass amouts of steam rising

    • @ayeklutch
      @ayeklutch 5 місяців тому

      It will impede with the working of the system

  • @gugagalo
    @gugagalo 8 місяців тому

    So radioactive cannot go through pipe? Interesting.
    Edit : maybe they use lead pipe

    • @ayeklutch
      @ayeklutch 5 місяців тому +1

      The water that is heated is sealed in pipes, which this water cools

    • @fishyfish2935
      @fishyfish2935 2 місяці тому

      The water in these pipes are completely separated from the water in the reactors. It dosent have a chance to be irrational

  • @osevenninefiver
    @osevenninefiver 5 місяців тому

    The housing itself could be re-fitted to generate enough energy without the uranium because of the resonance and size of the cavity as well as tall enough and heavy enough on ita own to provide energy. There's no turbine in the cooling tower, which proves that the engineers are just wasting their time and half-assed to emplore you to believe there isn't enough to go around.

  • @the4kcameraman
    @the4kcameraman Рік тому +1

    👳‍♀️

  • @horizontal120
    @horizontal120 11 місяців тому

    can't the hot water be used in some better more efficient way ???

    • @whiskeywight7844
      @whiskeywight7844 5 місяців тому

      I mean probably, but it'll just rain back down into the same body of water again so it doesn't really matter.

    • @placeholdername0000
      @placeholdername0000 26 днів тому

      Some powerplants use the waste heat to heat buildings through district heating, that's mostly used for cities in colder areas. In some deserts it is used to desalinate water.

  • @sarikabhutte6186
    @sarikabhutte6186 2 роки тому +1

    Ooh 😲

  • @itsAbadWorld
    @itsAbadWorld 3 місяці тому

    Just boiling the planet

  • @cookie5310
    @cookie5310 11 місяців тому +1

    Came here after watching gio_masters jump into one 💀

  • @Bdigi2012
    @Bdigi2012 8 місяців тому

    They pump moisture into the atmosphere one component of weather manufacturing

  • @jonashagstrom4664
    @jonashagstrom4664 8 місяців тому

    Seems like it is a waste of energy. Why not harvest the heat?

    • @takashitamagawa5881
      @takashitamagawa5881 5 місяців тому

      One could imagine the heated water being used to heat homes and provide them hot water, at least for moderately to densely populated regions. But the infrastructure would need to be put in place.

  • @luffythe5th
    @luffythe5th Рік тому +1

    When I was 5 I called the cloud makers 💀💀💀

  • @MaryStewart
    @MaryStewart 2 роки тому +5

    steam turban! only in Indian plants.

  • @itsmethalia3675
    @itsmethalia3675 3 місяці тому

    Σκεφτόμουν ότι κλείστηκα στο σπίτι με το μωρό και δεν κάνω τίποτα ουσιώδες πλέον πέρα απ το μεγάλωμα του...ΚΟΙΤΑ ΟΜΩΣ ΤΙ ΓΝΩΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΕΚΤΗΣΑ ΞΑΦΝΙΚΆ 😮😂

  • @fadedcolor7744
    @fadedcolor7744 Місяць тому

    Instructions unclear, illegally hooked my RTX 4090 into the local nuclear power plants cooling tower and overheated it...

  • @victorvaca7429
    @victorvaca7429 11 місяців тому +1

    Its not indian, it doesnt have a turban

  • @Ag89q43G0HyA
    @Ag89q43G0HyA 2 роки тому +2

    is that water radioactive??'

    • @mpk6664
      @mpk6664 2 роки тому +14

      no

    • @analogadam795
      @analogadam795 2 роки тому +3

      The cloud is steam from the cooling water from the nearby river. Its only use was for indirectly cooling down the engines.

    • @samuelwoolwineiv7886
      @samuelwoolwineiv7886 2 роки тому

      Not at all

    • @jadnouri9782
      @jadnouri9782 2 роки тому +5

      No .. the radio active water in the turbines doesn't get mixed with cooling water.

    • @kilovolt2494
      @kilovolt2494 2 роки тому +1

      it's a second circuit of water, so no.

  • @pplett8238
    @pplett8238 Рік тому +1

    Seems very inefficient.

    • @NavinF
      @NavinF Рік тому +6

      How so? Evaporative cooling is dirt cheap, you just need to power the pumps

    • @kokamzy2967
      @kokamzy2967 9 місяців тому

      wait untill you find out hundreds of meters deep coal mining sites just for half of this things power

    • @sylviaisgod6947
      @sylviaisgod6947 Місяць тому

      If you can find a way to make it even 1 percent more efficient, you'll be a millionaire.... Now get to work!

    • @pplett8238
      @pplett8238 29 днів тому

      @@sylviaisgod6947 do you know how I can implement my idea? I’ve actually worked and have some drawings on how to make some Oil refinery, more efficient I haven’t drawn any plans for the cooling tower just because we’re not really building those type of cooling towers anymore and neither is the world i think. I also have some blue prints for a website idea I have but my problem is the investor that’s were I hit the bump not the idea or Planning it.

  • @derekeliopoulos2670
    @derekeliopoulos2670 11 місяців тому

    👳‍♀️