We should have seriously invested in next generation turbines for high temperature systems. A efficient small CO2 turbine powered by a small GenIV nuclear reac

We should have seriously invested in next generation turbines for high temperature systems. A efficient small CO2 turbine powered by a small GenIV nuclear reactor would be absolutely incredible, in terms of economics, reliability, environment, efficiency, energy security and so on. But sadly, neither high temperature reactors nor turbines have received the funding they should have over the last 50 years. Even with a CCGT a high temperature nuclear plant could be really competitive specially if you want to have power when both wind and solar are at 5% utilization.