What is it exactly that a power plant can not do due to the cold temperatures?
Generators will still run and produce electricity in cold temperatures.
What is it exactly that a power plant can not do due to the cold temperatures?
Generators will still run and produce electricity in cold temperatures.
This is a drastic oversimplification. Power plants depend on steam to rotate the turbines. There’s a lot of piping there that’s not necessarily directly heated. In places where below freezing weather is either common or predictable, these pipes are insulated/heated/whatever; they’re set up to handle cold weather. Down here in Texas, they’re not.
This is a drastic oversimplification. Power plants depend on steam to rotate the turbines. There’s a lot of piping there that’s not necessarily directly heated. In places where below freezing weather is either common or predictable, these pipes are insulated/heated/whatever; they’re set up to handle cold weather. Down here in Texas, they’re not.
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