How does a cooling tower work?

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  • čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
  • Learn about the workings of the Hope Creek cooling tower

Komentáře • 103

  • @Monsoozi
    @Monsoozi Před rokem +68

    Always wondered how the cloud machine worked!

  • @aresinterceptor
    @aresinterceptor Před rokem +266

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

  • @bananafoneable
    @bananafoneable Před 9 měsíci +58

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

  • @shawnganske8731
    @shawnganske8731 Před rokem +35

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

    • @SubVet84
      @SubVet84 Před rokem +11

      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 Před měsícem +2

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

    • @spaceguy564
      @spaceguy564 Před měsícem +1

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

    • @CimbomFanFiction
      @CimbomFanFiction Před 11 dny +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

  • @TheClumsyChicken
    @TheClumsyChicken Před 2 lety +14

    Thanks you saved my grades

  • @SubVet84
    @SubVet84 Před rokem +11

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

    • @DavidKohout
      @DavidKohout Před rokem

      Efficiency probably

    • @mattharper588
      @mattharper588 Před 8 měsíci +6

      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 Před měsícem

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

  • @youtubeaccount6539
    @youtubeaccount6539 Před 2 lety +37

    People are so dramatic about these

    • @rouchar
      @rouchar Před rokem +1

      People are mostly idiots, so... 😛

  • @tstahler5420
    @tstahler5420 Před měsícem

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

  • @nalo1728
    @nalo1728 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @anatoliisamoilenko7390
    @anatoliisamoilenko7390 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Thank you

  • @Moneygrip
    @Moneygrip Před 3 lety +16

    Ah so it is an evaporative cooler

  • @TheDaveRout
    @TheDaveRout Před 5 měsíci +1

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

    • @ayeklutch
      @ayeklutch Před měsícem

      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

  • @Tommythegamerlad
    @Tommythegamerlad Před 2 měsíci +1

    I love nuclear power

  • @osevenninefiver
    @osevenninefiver Před 2 měsíci

    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.

  • @Subuzy
    @Subuzy Před 5 měsíci +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 Před měsícem

      It will impede with the working of the system

  • @cookie5310
    @cookie5310 Před 7 měsíci

    Came here after watching gio_masters jump into one 💀

  • @Stupid_Words
    @Stupid_Words Před 6 dny

    Just boiling the planet

  • @jaybling9475
    @jaybling9475 Před 9 měsíci

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

    • @babyapple_
      @babyapple_ Před 8 měsíci +4

      the fish gonna die

    • @mattharper588
      @mattharper588 Před 8 měsíci +4

      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

  • @Bdigi2012
    @Bdigi2012 Před 4 měsíci

    They pump moisture into the atmosphere one component of weather manufacturing

  • @gugagalo
    @gugagalo Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @ayeklutch
      @ayeklutch Před měsícem

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

  • @horizontal120
    @horizontal120 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @whiskeywight7844
      @whiskeywight7844 Před měsícem

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

  • @ugotdusted
    @ugotdusted Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @the4kcameraman
    @the4kcameraman Před rokem +1

    👳‍♀️

  • @jonashagstrom4664
    @jonashagstrom4664 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @takashitamagawa5881
      @takashitamagawa5881 Před 2 měsíci

      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.

  • @sarikabhutte6186
    @sarikabhutte6186 Před 2 lety +1

    Ooh 😲

  • @MaryStewart
    @MaryStewart Před 2 lety +5

    steam turban! only in Indian plants.

  • @victorvaca7429
    @victorvaca7429 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Its not indian, it doesnt have a turban

  • @Ag89q43G0HyA
    @Ag89q43G0HyA Před 2 lety +2

    is that water radioactive??'

    • @mpk6664
      @mpk6664 Před 2 lety +12

      no

    • @analogadam795
      @analogadam795 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      Not at all

    • @jadnouri9782
      @jadnouri9782 Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @kilovolt2494
      @kilovolt2494 Před rokem +1

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

  • @pplett8238
    @pplett8238 Před rokem +1

    Seems very inefficient.

    • @NavinF
      @NavinF Před rokem +6

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

    • @kokamzy2967
      @kokamzy2967 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @derekeliopoulos2670
    @derekeliopoulos2670 Před 7 měsíci

    👳‍♀️