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I’m also confused on how they are “consuming” the water. I’m guessing they aren’t closed loop like most later cooling, but are they just… using it till it evaporates? I legitimately don’t understand where this water goes that it’s just… gone?
Yes, but I'd say it goes further. Using it until it evaporates isn't a side effect of some other cooling process. Evaporating the water is the cooling process.
Presumably not gone, just from food quality to dirty.
But then could it not just be recirculated? I’m not understand why we are assuming we pull out of the tap, and dump into the sewer, when that sounds incredibly costly. Would they not just.. dump into a cooling tank, then reuse when down to temp?
Refer to my comment above. It is not recirculated as per the article