Can you help me with this? A steam power plant produces 400 MW of power. How muc

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Can you help me with this? A steam power plant produces 400 MW of power. How much energydoes the power plant produce in a year? Express your answer inunits of J and Btu. This one confuses me because in the beginning, it does not sayhow long it takes the power plant to produce the 400 MW of power.Is there some generalization I should be assuming here? This is notpart of another question, so all the information is rightthere. Thanks to all. Can you help me with this? A steam power plant produces 400 MW of power. How much energydoes the power plant produce in a year? Express your answer inunits of J and Btu. This one confuses me because in the beginning, it does not sayhow long it takes the power plant to produce the 400 MW of power.Is there some generalization I should be assuming here? This is notpart of another question, so all the information is rightthere. Thanks to all.

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A watt is defined as 1 joule persecond. So if it's producing400MW, that means it's producing 400E6J/s The definition of power gives you the time frame. So fromhere, i assume you'd find out how many seconds there are in a yearand multiply it by the power (written as joules per second) (I'm assuming here that MW means mega watt or 1E6 watts)

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