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Wouldn’t this generate a ton of heat?

• WheatM 4y ago
• jillesvangurp 4y ago
  Only if it is very inefficient.
  • kataklasm 4y ago
    Right, but that's the thing about efficiency, it's relative. Another poster made some napkin calculations, even with a 99% effective process, meaning 1% energy lost to the environment, he calculated several kW of heat you need get out of your system. Even if you have 99% efficiency, which in reality is mostly unachievable, that's still a huge loss of energy if the energy you're handling is high enough.
    • nomel 4y ago
      > which in reality is mostly unachievable By what metric? Here's a company that sells dry and wet closed loop water cooling systems that are > 500kW.
  • gambiting 4y ago
    Even if it's 99% efficient(which would be incredible), if you're recharging 100kWh of capacity in a minute, that's using 6MW. So your 1% of inefficiency is still 60kW of heat that you need to do something with. And 60kW of heat is a crazy amount.