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Being able to restart it at all makes it better than a lot of industries. Many of these liquid-metal affairs depend on convection and inertia to keep the metal
by Filligree 3y ago
Being able to restart it at all makes it better than a lot of industries. Many of these liquid-metal affairs depend on convection and inertia to keep the metal molten, and if it solidifies inside a pipe—well, then you don't have a pipe anymore; you have a bimetal pole.
Or ceramic cladding for an iron pole, depending.
Either way it's a rebuild, not a restart.
- iancmceachern 3y agoTotally, like magnetic induction pumps that pump molten iron, once the iron solidifies its a composite tube.
- Arrath 3y ago> well, then you don't have a pipe anymore; you have a bimetal pole. I love that way of describing it.