treehugger.com — In the middle of a heat wave, the Tennessee Valley Authority has been forced to shut down a reactor at Browns Ferry. because water drawn from the Tennessee River was exceeding a 90-degree average over 24 hours, amid a blistering heat wave across the Southeast. "
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darnyAug 19, 2007
Oh yeah, and it's oh-so sustainable.
pakerAug 19, 2007
Build a big paddle wheel to let the flow of the river to generate electricity. Problem solved.
coitAug 19, 2007
Which non-water cooled technologies are you speaking of? All of the next-gen plants are still water cooled...For that matter, please tell me which power producing technologies are not water dependent that are suitable for large scale energy production.. None.
f0dderAug 19, 2007
It's to protect the fish. Warm water holds less oxygen so they suffocate. In a humid climate, cooling towers are ineffective that's why they don't bother with them in asia. It has nothing to do w/leaking radiation to the environment.
gwolfAug 20, 2007
Are their control systems EMP shielded?
happytronAug 20, 2007
I don't think thermodynamics can be cheated that easily. Although some heat can trapped in ethanol's chemical bonds, not all of it can. There is a bound on how much energy, in the form of waste heat, must be transferred to the cold temperature reservoir per unit of mechanical (and thus electrical) work extracted (the amount depends on the relative temperature differences).
smuikasAug 20, 2007
God I hate that smiley butt on the right hand side of everything on that website.