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Did you ever wondered how do they power an entire city with electricity ?

Posted - March 23, 2019

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  • 5391
    No need to wonder: Power grids.
    A modern miracle. 
      March 23, 2019 6:51 PM MDT
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  • 44228
    No...I already know how it is done.

      March 23, 2019 7:28 PM MDT
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  • 17398
    Yes.  I read about it.  I highly recommend it.
      March 23, 2019 7:37 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Recycled Duracell batteries -there are billions of them. 
      March 24, 2019 12:29 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I read that there is enough atomic power in a common grain of sand to power a city for months. However, it would be too difficult to extract from common sand, so we use uranium based sand that can more readily give up the energy in the form of heat. It's sort of like an atomic bomb that is controlled in slow motion. BBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
      March 24, 2019 5:49 AM MDT
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  • 44228
    Not quite that simple.
      March 24, 2019 7:59 AM MDT
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  • 3684
    No, I have never "wondered" how, or at least if I did I was very young, and I learnt very quickly.

    It's done "simply" by generating very large quantities of electricity!

    The national grids Don Barzini mentions are the means to distribute the electricity.
      March 31, 2019 2:27 AM MDT
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