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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by londons_explore on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:48AM (#19189604)
Pretty much every energy source has a lot of waste heat produced.

Solar panels get hot, gas turbines have hot exhausts, coal plants have cooling towers etc.

They all approximate a heat engine, and they must theoretically give off heat to the cold reservoir

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by logifail on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:30AM (#19190464)
> They all approximate a heat engine

For each of those energy sources mentioned, what would happen if the generating station were to be completely inundated with water?

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