That’s over 80 million liters per day! You have to realize that these new nuclear power plants make 4 billion watts of heat and about 1.4 billion goes out as electric power. The remaining heat has to be dissipated as heat – so it goes into the water in the cooling tower. https://www.facebook.com/southernnuclear/videos/708110578766188/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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2023-12-25 Consumptive Water Use For US Power Production
This technical report from NREL dated 2003 discusses the water consumed by thermoelectric power plants. It’s a .PDF available online from the US government.
2023-10-25 US Subsidies For Meat, Etc.
A quick Google search for “US meat subsidies” turned up this:$38B/year in meat and dairy subsidies, $17M/year for fruits and vegetables. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26872805:nIE https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26872805%3AnIEsjCg05Ef7QCY7oVPiSJ1IQR4&cuid=469956 —————————- Direct corn ethanol subsidies are lower, around $100M. But indirectly, the renewable portfolio standard forces fuel companies to subsidize ethanol by mandating it. https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCS-Biofuels-Subsidies-Report.pdf Perennial grass ethanol has not advanced as
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