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I don't see why there can't be load resistors (like locomotives use) to gracefully handle these sorts of situations.
by m463 2y ago
I don't see why there can't be load resistors (like locomotives use) to gracefully handle these sorts of situations.
- Qwertious 2y agoWell if you can solve it, I imagine there's a lot of money to be made - and yet it hasn't been solved.
- jeffbee 2y agoAn SD40 locomotive can dissipate about 500kW that way, so you would need the equivalent of 2000 locomotives worth of resistors and fans to sink the 1 or 2GW or more that a fission power station produces.
- rcxdude 2y agoIf you wanted to do so continuously. If you're just handling an impulse you don't need so much, but it's gotta absorb a lot of energy quickly.