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[Aeronaut]

zapkitty wrote:

What do you do with the steam besides make electricity? Is steam absolutely required for your heating requirements? FF is a lousy candidate for making the high pressure, high volume steam for driving turbines, but it is well suited for making low pressure hot water industrial and institutional boilers. The energy mix is expected to be ~5MWe and 8MWt, and none of the heat is required for fusion power generation.

8MWt? I thought it was ~5MWt?

If so then that’s ~3.2 MWt for the 2MWe container… that crowds the single fan cooling iteration a bit. Dual fans will cover 3.2 MWt easily, and at less electrical overhead, but I was hoping to save the volume…

edit: “will cover 8MWt” typo

In the fine print, making 5MWe @ 42% expected thermodynamic efficiency also produces ~8MWt. So the real total system energy production is more on the order of 13MW at around 330 hz. Made to order for cogen plants that don’t need huge volumes and pressures of superheated steam.