[arlindohall]

I have a hard time taking an article seriously who uses an image of water vapor coming off nuclear cooling towers as an example of carbon emissions from energy production.

[tlb]

Those sort of cooling towers aren't just for nuclear power. They're the most efficient way of cooling anything, unless you're next to a river. Judging from the railway and storage around it, I think that's a coal plant.

[hanoz]

Indeed it appears to be Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station), Britian's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

[mirimir]

Yes. But whatever, they're still cooling towers. No CO2 comes from there, just water vapor. But many, I suspect, think that they're squat smokestacks.

[arlindohall]

Oh cool! I didn't realize that design was widely used, although it makes sense. If it can cool water for a nuclear plant then no reason it can't cool water for anything else!