Re: Nuclear Power Plants
In reply to #5432 Re: Nuclear Power Plants by Carl Fago
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- #5441 Re: Nuclear Power Plants by Klaus Moeller
Wildstar [email removed] said:
> I don't know enough about the subject to be sure,
>but isn't a significant fraction of the energy carried away in particles
>that aren't useful (like neutrinos)?
I always thought the reason for the massive jump in fusion plant
power-to-mass ratio at TL 15 was that superdense matter technology enabled
the plant to capture some of the high-energy neutrinos produced by the
reaction and convert their energy to electrical power....
Seth "the Lesser"