some physicists at Sandia labs have been working on a similar technology: the counter rotating ring receiver reactor recuperator, or CR5[1]. Though it seems to

some physicists at Sandia labs have been working on a similar technology: the counter rotating ring receiver reactor recuperator, or CR5[1]. Though it seems to be a long way from reaching the necessary efficiency for it to be comercially viable. It was festured in Daniel Suarez's Freedom, as the main fuel generator for a native self-sustaining community. [1] https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshine.html https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshi...