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Seems like it would be better to directly use the heat i.e. for desalination vs. trying to turn it into electricity. i.e. build a nuclear power plant near the
by umvi 6y ago
Seems like it would be better to directly use the heat i.e. for desalination vs. trying to turn it into electricity.
i.e. build a nuclear power plant near the coast, use piped in sea water to cool it, use hot sea water to desalinate with heat gradient
- Mountain_Skies 6y agoCan the problems encountered with the Fukushima nuclear plant being located on the coast be overcome?
- Baeocystin 6y agoWhat led to the Fukushima reactors failing the way they did was that their emergency generators were situated in low-lying, tsunami-reachable areas. Simply relocating/elevating them, and the whole mess wouldn't have happened. https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventable-new-study-finds/ https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventabl... (There's more to it than this, of course, but it's an accurate first-pass summary.)