JimmyT wrote: The truth:
Almost half of all water withdrawn in the United States each year is for cooling electric power plants. And the vast majority of that water is simply raised a couple of degrees and returned to the river or lake from whence it originated. There have been environmental impact studies ad-nauseum which show that very little if any harm is done to the ecology in the process.
So this thermal pollution thing is a non issue? Send some links, we can add those to the post.
Either way, we want it to work for us – for Focus Fusion to look good.
For those who are convinced it’s a non-issue, we show due diligence in acknowledging the issue.
For those who aren’t convinced it’s a non-issue, who have fears of thermal pollution, we should be able to show how we’re much less alleged-thermal polluting than anything else out there.
We do claim this is “clean” energy, so we have the burden of addressing all the potential criticisms to be lobbed.