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You'd still need a heat exchanger at some point, and you want a lot of surface area and thin walls for that.
by patmorgan23 6y ago
You'd still need a heat exchanger at some point, and you want a lot of surface area and thin walls for that.
- dheera 6y agoRandom thought experiment -- why not just drop it in the middle of a lifeless desert, forget about heat exchangers, and just let it slowly melt its way down through the crust of the earth? Assuming it went straight down and into the mantle, it would probably not impact the ecosystem.
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- jagannathtech 6y agobrb inventing teleportation
- selectodude 6y agoWouldn’t be particularly helpful for power generation since the salt needs to be cooled by water to create the steam to make the power.
- loopz 6y agoLike an uncontained nuclear reaction spewing radioactive materials over a large area?
- riffraff 6y agoThat's more or less what terrapower plans to build: dig a hole fill it with nuclear stuff and let it burn for decades.
- p1mrx 6y agoEven in a desert, you'll cross the water table before reaching the mantle. And people prefer to consume electricity in hospitable locations.
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago"probably" being the key word here; Chernobyl was in a fairly remote area but the fallout spewed over a big part of Europe. If you go to the desert to make use of the space, might as well build a solar array instead.