Physics Help Please! A power plant running at 34 percent efficiency generates 300 MW of electric power.?
At what rate (in MW) is heat energy exhausted to the river that cools the plant?
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At what rate (in MW) is heat energy exhausted to the river that cools the plant?
Q=__MW
sojsail
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Energy used (coal or whatever) = usable energy + energy sent to the river for cooling
efficiency = usable energy/Energy used
Therefore Energy used = usable energy/efficiency
Plug that and the usable energy into the first equation above
alex
102MW