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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoEarth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoSounds pretty costly to bring all that up But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoCould you skip the turbine and slap a bunch of peltier elements on the reactor? Probably not super efficient, what with the vacuum of space being bad at absorbing hear, and if I recall right peltier produces more power the larger heat gradient.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoIsn’t there water in the lunar regolith?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoThere are a lot of seas on the Moon after all.
Filled with water from where?
Earth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.
Sounds pretty costly to bring all that up
But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?
Could you skip the turbine and slap a bunch of peltier elements on the reactor?
Probably not super efficient, what with the vacuum of space being bad at absorbing hear, and if I recall right peltier produces more power the larger heat gradient.
Isn’t there water in the lunar regolith?
There are a lot of seas on the Moon after all.