World’s largest heat pump under development in Germany – pv magazine Internation

[rcjordan]

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/worlds-largest-heat-pump-under-development-in-germany/

This zine looks good. I'll add it to my feeds if it has rss.

[rcjordan]

Debbie says Not So Fast... a water-sourced heat exchanger of this magnitude is going to have an impact on water temps downstream.  To give a miniscule example, in the summer my heat pump has 57f intake and 70f discharge.

[ergophobe]

There are no solutions, only tradeoffs
  - Thomas Sowell

Here's a thermal map of waters near a nuclear power plant

https://scienceforourcoast.org/thermal-water-pollution-nuclear-power-plants

There is no "clean" energy. There are just tradeoffs.

Thermal discharges of nuclear plants caused an increase of 4.38 °C in nearby seawater.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X2300886X

[Rupert]

Thats great news, swimming off the Welsh coast near Wylfa will nice .

Or is that the wrong attitude?

we have been waiting 13 years for the UK govt to decide what to do with Wylfa. Finally they are putting some Rolls Royce SMRs on it. 
The Donald is not happy, but everyone else is.

I always thought it was a slightly warmer place to swim when the old power station was running, Not 4 degrees, but certainly warmer.

[rcjordan]

>only tradeoffs

Desalinization plants producing potable water dump large amounts of brine in near-ish bodies of water.  That might work out if the dump is in the ocean, but we're dumping ours in a large, brackish sound.