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A 38% efficient power plant puts out 850MW of electrical power. Cooling towers take away the...

A 38% efficient power plant puts out 850MW of electrical power. Cooling towers take away the exhaust heat.

a) If the air temperature is allowed to rise 9.0ºC, what volume of air is heated per day?

b) If the heated air were to form a layer 180m thick, estimate how large an area it would cover for 24 hours of operation. Assume the air has density 1.3 kg/?3 and has specific heat of about 1.0 kJ/kgºC.

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