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A power plant with an efficiency of 33% burns 8 kg of coal per second. The...

A power plant with an efficiency of 33% burns 8 kg of coal per second. The coal has a heat content of 28 kJ/g while also discharging 78% of its waste heat to cooling water state the rate of energy that is being imparted to the flow of water?

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