Posted on 08/31/2022 1:16:54 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
LOL - but take a guess on the hot showers for Smelly Germans.
The problem is that those numbers are being reported by some officials
Reminds me of the covid case counter, by country....aaaaarrrrgh!
If you used a typical electric water heater, with an energy factor of around 0.9, the same shower would consume 12,000 Btus of electricity
The three operational stinky German nuke plants that are scheduled to Go Greta on December 31st this year are 1310 MWs, 1330 MWs and 1410 MWs, respectively.
Let's calculate for an average of 1320 MWs:
1000 W = 3412 BTU/hr
4 KW per shower, roughly
from another website: When you take a shower, you use more or less 15L/min of water. So, a shower of 5 minutes will consume 75L of water, which amounts to 9 MJ, or 2.5 kWh.
In a nutshell, when you take a hot shower, you consume half a kWh per minute. If you take a cold shower, you help saving the planet but you freeze.
So, 1320MW [1.32 GW] will shower 5,280,000 stinky Germans, at 4KW per shower.
More, if they only get 5 minutes before they go to the communal warming rooms.
Reuters Analysis: Full gas storage no fix for Europe's winter energy crunch
By Kate Abnett and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
August 31, 2022
https://archive.ph/PXA3W
It’s NEVER enough, for libs....lol.
Nice linky
A pan of boiling water, in every apartment :-)
Damn, you didn’t have to spend that much time on it.
My estimate had been half of the energy per hot shower, with Linked-In saying 1.6 kWh (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/energy-used-heat-shower-water-brian-dolly). Using the lower number, and assuming a 1.0 GW reactor (a bit smaller than the German ones) it comes out to about 13.5 Million hot showers for Stinky Germans (assuming electric heating).
If one assumes that running the reactor frees up natural gas to heat the water, then about 20 Million hot showers for Stinky Germans from that one reactor, with all 3 of them being able to pretty much provide hot showers daily for every Stinky German. Yet, the German Energy Minister, Habeck, sees no benefit in keeping the reactors operating.
Upper 40s tonight in Warsaw and Muchkin, so:
♫ Summer’s Almost Gone ♫,
for Europe.
Time to get out the popcorn.
Took me about 5-6 minutes, I think.
An interesting number to know, per shower.
A Russian and an American had a foot race....the American won.
The next day’s headlines read:
NY Post;
American Wins!!!
NY Times;
Russian comes in second - American comes in next to last!
Not as important as gas stocks, but you get the idea.
Don’t forget, the contemporary press is the first draft of the history books.
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