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Nuclear energy/power-steam pumping engines
How much nuclear energy/power would be needed to produce the same amount generated by the largest steam pumping engines?
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Here's your pumping engine
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/cornish/pump. html
It doesn't say how much power it produces but it says it can pump 5,000,000 gallons per 24 hours from 1,500 feet.
Putting that in grown-up measurements that's about 19 millon litres 457 metres and because a joule is 1Kg (a litre of water weighs 1Kg) raised 1 M that's 8.7 billion Joules in 24 hours.
Divide by seconds in a day gives you about 100KW
So you'd need 10,000 of these pumping engines to make 1 Sizewell B nuclear power station
Does that help?
Here's your pumping engine
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/cornish/pump. html
It doesn't say how much power it produces but it says it can pump 5,000,000 gallons per 24 hours from 1,500 feet.
Putting that in grown-up measurements that's about 19 millon litres 457 metres and because a joule is 1Kg (a litre of water weighs 1Kg) raised 1 M that's 8.7 billion Joules in 24 hours.
Divide by seconds in a day gives you about 100KW
So you'd need 10,000 of these pumping engines to make 1 Sizewell B nuclear power station
Does that help?
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