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Not a Nuclear Mechanical Engineer, but I bet you could concentrate the heat of the reactors using a giant nuclear-grade heat pump to concentrate heat well above
by GenerocUsername 5y ago
Not a Nuclear Mechanical Engineer, but I bet you could concentrate the heat of the reactors using a giant nuclear-grade heat pump to concentrate heat well above the point-temperature of the reactor itself. As long as the fuel is generating X Watts of power, you can theoretically concentrate that energy away and down to smaller and smaller areas, increasing temperature as you go.
- davidmanheim 5y agoWe should probably ask someone who took a heat transfer or other undergrad physics class, but from my basic understanding of the physics, "concentrating heat" isn't really a thing - at the very least, you'd need to extract the energy from a heat differential into some other form to do this.