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You can't "just" put 1GW of power into the ground, that energy is conserved and is still going to do something (quite a lot of somethings, in fact)
by YawningAngel 5y ago
You can't "just" put 1GW of power into the ground, that energy is conserved and is still going to do something (quite a lot of somethings, in fact)
- tyho 5y agoEh, you could dissipate it by boiling ~20M^3 water per second. That's about the same as this river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Teme#/media/File:Ludlow_bridge.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Teme#/media/File:Ludlow_...
- YawningAngel 5y agoSince power plants are already in the business of boiling water, I imagine that if it were a simple case of bypassing turbines and allowing the water to be cooled without generating electricity they would do so. Or perhaps such a solution is in fact feasible, but negative energy prices were not a practical problem when current plants were built
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- jliptzin 5y agoEven if it’s dispersed over a wide area deep underground?
- YawningAngel 5y agoI have no expertise in this area so I don't really know, but i imagine dispersing 1GW of power over a wide area deep underground presents substantial challenges of its own