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How will they convert heat into electricity? On earth you have plenty of water as a good medium for the heat and a thick atmosphere that serves as the heatsink.
by legulere 9y ago
How will they convert heat into electricity? On earth you have plenty of water as a good medium for the heat and a thick atmosphere that serves as the heatsink. On mars you have neither.
- dredmorbius 9y agoSterling-cycle generator, utilising heat pipes, based on this study (PDF): http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-14-23402 http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lare... Tracked via Wikipedia, which has a brief article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
- jwilk 9y agoNon-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
- rocky1138 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic