Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoRussia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moonintlmonitor.comexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkRussia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moonintlmonitor.comViking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square49linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSounds pretty costly to bring all that up But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?
minus-squareZorg@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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.
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.