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News Article, January 6, 2020 • By Melissae Fellet Electricity production is one of the industries that uses the most water in the country each day. Researchers at Sandia are helping the largest power plant in the United States identify the most efficient and cost-effective strategies to reduce water use. They have developed a first-of-its-kind comprehensive...
Sandia researcher Bobby Middleton, right, has developed a more efficient cooling system for power plants. Together with Patrick Brady, left, the researchers are also developing a first-of-its kind systems dynamics analysis to identify water-saving technologies for cooling at power plants.