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>Meh. The biggest data center (ChinaTel's Inner Mongolia Information Park) consumes about 150MWe, assuming all of it becomes waste heat it's basically nothing:
by naravara 8y ago
>Meh. The biggest data center (ChinaTel's Inner Mongolia Information Park) consumes about 150MWe, assuming all of it becomes waste heat it's basically nothing: a nuclear reactor (each plant has 2~8) releases 2Wt for each We it produces, and they're usually sized between 800 and 1300MWe.
Seems a shame to let all that heat go to waste. Surely we put that waste heat to use and a distillery or desalinization plant or something.
- teachrdan 8y agoDesalination isn't a bad idea, but it does produce large quantities of waste brine, among other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental
- naravara 8y ago>but it does produce large quantities of waste brine, among other things So combination data center, desalinization plant, and pickle factory then?
- grkvlt 8y agoTo let all that radioactive heat go to waste? Although maybe that's just the primary coolant circuit - is the water they use from rivers/the ocean made radioactive, or just heated?
- naravara 8y agoI was thinking more from data centers. You could probably do it with nuclear too. This gif: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/08/np-how-Pressurized-Water-Reactors-work.gif https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/08/np... shows how typical nuclear reactors work. They're functionally just steam turbines, the nuclear power is just capable of heating a whole lot of water. The waste heat, though, doesn't come in contact with the radioactive parts. That's what's happened on the bottom with the condenser.