Estimate the energy extracted from 1 km 3 of granite if cooled from 300 C to

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Estimate the energy extracted from 1 km3 of granite if cooled from 300 C to 200 C. Assume that a power plant runs between the (time-varying) temperature Tof the granite and an ambient temperature of 20 C and reaches 1/2 of the Carnot efficiency at each Tg. For how long could a 100 MW power plant run off this energy?

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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