calculate the fuel used to clean 175,000 heliostats (350,000 mirrors) and number of vehicles required to cycle the field every two weeks along with labor/android rental cost
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Washing would be done using a truck-mounted pressure washer, and use *42.7 >> acre-feet per year*. >> > That's 14 million gallons per year. 38,000 per day. Nuclear plants use 400 > to 700 gallons/MWh, as do coal plants. That's at least 9.6 million per day > for a 1000 MW plant. Since this is a 300 MW plant I guess a fair comparison > would be 2.8 million. > > What is your point? > > - Jed > >
