A large electrical power station generates 1000 MW of electricity with an efficiency of 35.0%. (a) Calculate the heat transfer to the power station, Qh , in one day.          (b) How much heat transfer Qc occurs to the environment in one day?      (c) If the heat transfer in the cooling towers is from 35.0º C water into the local air mass, which increases in temperature from 18.0º C to 20.0º C , what is the total increase in entropy due to this heat transfer? (d) How much energy becomes unavailable to do work because of this increase in entropy, assuming an 18.0º C lowest temperature? (Part of Qccould be utilized to operate heat engines or for simply heating the surroundings, but it rarely is.)

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A large electrical power station generates 1000 MW of electricity with an efficiency of 35.0%. 
(a) Calculate the heat transfer to the power station, Qh , in one day.          (b) How much heat transfer Qc occurs to the environment in one day?      (c) If the heat transfer in the cooling towers is from 35.0º C water into the local air mass, which increases in temperature from 18.0º C to 20.0º C , what is the total increase in entropy due to this heat transfer? 
(d) How much energy becomes unavailable to do work because of this increase in entropy, assuming an 18.0º C lowest temperature? (Part of Qc
could be utilized to operate heat engines or for simply heating the surroundings, but it rarely is.)

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