Talk:Thermal pollution

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 January 2021 and 5 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vanpe022, Skjaer. Peer reviewers: Steminist04, Leex8420.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 11:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

In the Northern Hemisphere...
"In the Northern Hemisphere, a common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant, especially in power plants. "

Don't we have power plants in the southern hemisphere? Sorry... 58.164.39.1 (talk) 11:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC) yes... but i dont know ThE rEaL  lEo  00:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Most of the ecological effects section is wrong
and unsupported of correct. This section reads like a high school term paper. Most of it is assertion without support If this is even true for any species is doubtful. If it is true it is too broad a treatment. Primary producers include algae, chrysophytes, diatoms, etc... all of which might respond differently. This is but one example that could be clipped from this section. Someone should rewrite this with examples that have proper citations from scientific studies. magazines are not proper sources....

"Primary producers are affected by warm water because higher water temperature increases plant growth rates, resulting in a shorter lifespan and species overpopulation."

Avram Primack (talk) 04:07, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Modeling section makes no sense
...and is uncited. The 'Ultimate model'? 'statistical variations in meteorology'? What? Energy balance water temperature modeling began in the 1960's.

But honestly is temperature modeling interesting or relevant enough to put in here? I ask this as someone who has made his living over the past year modeling water temperatures. I'm deleting that section - if you want to replace it please cite.Mandoliniment (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC).

Global Warming
does this relate to thermal pollution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.189.141 (talk) 20:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Algae Bloom
How does an algae bloom *reduce* oxygen levels?? That doesn't sound right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.88.30.235 (talk) 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Alternate definition of the term
In Isaac Asimov's book, "A Choice of Catastrophes", he refers to thermal pollution as "increasing Earth's average temperature above what it would be in the absence of human technology through heat radiation", and makes no specific mention of water, or any of the issues brought up in this article.. Is Asimov's definition an idiosyncrasy, or has the definition changed since 1979 (when the book was published)? The2crowrox (talk) 04:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by The2crowrox (talk • contribs) 04:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Thermal pollution
If you search for "thermal power plant discharge water temperature" or similar search on steam-electric power plant thermal discharges, you will find an abundance of studies associated with nuclear power plants and not much on the more general topic of thermal power plants. The vast majority of the nuclear plant studies were performed specifically to expose some negative impact of nuclear plant operation, as there are many well-funded anti-nuclear power environmental groups with the stated agenda to close all nuclear power plants. Most anti-nuclear studies lack any meaningful technical rigor and should be interpreted with extreme caution if you want to produce a technically credible result. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.103.72.2 (talk) 16:29, 6 September 2022 (UTC) Details please Prithiv PK (talk) 09:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thermal pollution Prithiv PK (talk) 09:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi! Me and a partner are planning on editing this page for an assignment. We were thinking of adding a "biogeochemical effects" section which would focus more on thermocline changes and more chemical/physical type changes to water bodies. We can also edit and re-source the ecological section as someone noted above. We were also planning on reordering the page ("causes", "biogeochem effects", "ecological effects"). Does anyone have any concerns about this plan of action? Vanpe022 (talk) 02:14, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

The page has changed since I last asked, so now we are planning on breaking up the final section on sources/solutions into sources (which we will put at the beginning of the article) and solutions (at the very end) with biogeochem effects and ecological effects in the middle. Does anyone have any concerns with this? Vanpe022 (talk) 17:46, 29 March 2021 (UTC)