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Originally, these types of systems relied not only on the electricity but also some of the heat output of the nuclear plant. If you’re having to do both with s
by coredog64 4y ago
Originally, these types of systems relied not only on the electricity but also some of the heat output of the nuclear plant. If you’re having to do both with solar, then the efficiency is that much lower.
With that said, according to the abstract, this implementation doesn’t require excessive heat energy so you could probably get away with solar thermal for that bit.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoOr because you don't need to do it on a schedule, just do it in a cold desert with high DNI like mongolia and use 60c/W thermal heliostats which are capable of higher temperatures for the heat rather than $4/W thermal nuclear.