The source of the water for the Rock City is a river, lake, or desalination plants and the water feeds from the top to the bottom in the Rock City. The water also feeds the nuke reactor where it's used for cooling but does not get radioactive. The water feeds down from the reactor to rejoin the grey water from the City where it's cleaned until it's potable again.
From the bottom of the city, the water which is now hot due to the return from the nuke reactor is pumped back to the top of the city where a portion goes back into the city system to supply the city's hot water needs but that won't use all of it so the remainder needs to exit the facility to return to the natural environment.
Since the water is still hot, it's not a green return to pump it straight back into the river or original source but there's another option in channeling it to the fields to be used for agriculture. Some of that water will be lost to the air in evaporation but most of it will be absorbed into the soil to support the plants.
One possible kill is this will boil the lil feets of the plants and instead of feeding them it will boil them. Unknown if that's good arithmetic since the Sun will heat water in shallow channels tremendously anyway. Part of the rationale is the water will be losing heat into the atmosphere through evaporation but the ground would be radiating high levels of heat anyway. Even though it's low-tech, sometimes hitting things with a rock will work.
That will take more maths than I can muster to validate so that means it must be a solution, right?
For some types of plants it's better for the water to bathe the leaves and for other it's better if it doesn't. For the first kind, we need to go with sprinklers but the same question comes in using hot water since will this now boil the leaves instead of the roots.
These solutions still waste the heat which was produced and only serve to recycle the water which we would have done anyway by pumping it into a river. They're estimable solutions and the OCD aspect is this part has to fit the other parts or the whole jigsaw falls apart.
It's a sure bet the sociological implications in the Rock City will be more challenging but OCD demands this part can't be blown off just to get faster to the sociology part. That's fine for writing an outline but this story writes itself top to bottom so there's no going back for a redo on anything.
This unremarkable solution will hang in space for a bit before I decide I really want to use it but there's still a nag that there's got to be a better way which actually uses that heat energy instead of wasting it.
From the bottom of the city, the water which is now hot due to the return from the nuke reactor is pumped back to the top of the city where a portion goes back into the city system to supply the city's hot water needs but that won't use all of it so the remainder needs to exit the facility to return to the natural environment.
Since the water is still hot, it's not a green return to pump it straight back into the river or original source but there's another option in channeling it to the fields to be used for agriculture. Some of that water will be lost to the air in evaporation but most of it will be absorbed into the soil to support the plants.
One possible kill is this will boil the lil feets of the plants and instead of feeding them it will boil them. Unknown if that's good arithmetic since the Sun will heat water in shallow channels tremendously anyway. Part of the rationale is the water will be losing heat into the atmosphere through evaporation but the ground would be radiating high levels of heat anyway. Even though it's low-tech, sometimes hitting things with a rock will work.
That will take more maths than I can muster to validate so that means it must be a solution, right?
For some types of plants it's better for the water to bathe the leaves and for other it's better if it doesn't. For the first kind, we need to go with sprinklers but the same question comes in using hot water since will this now boil the leaves instead of the roots.
These solutions still waste the heat which was produced and only serve to recycle the water which we would have done anyway by pumping it into a river. They're estimable solutions and the OCD aspect is this part has to fit the other parts or the whole jigsaw falls apart.
It's a sure bet the sociological implications in the Rock City will be more challenging but OCD demands this part can't be blown off just to get faster to the sociology part. That's fine for writing an outline but this story writes itself top to bottom so there's no going back for a redo on anything.
This unremarkable solution will hang in space for a bit before I decide I really want to use it but there's still a nag that there's got to be a better way which actually uses that heat energy instead of wasting it.
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