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An 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
by jeffbee 2y ago
An 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.