redsnapper wrote: I’m beginning to think zapkitty’s thermal number is (somehow) measured thermal output of the reactor core (i.e., thermal input to the high side of the conversion cycle), not thermal output of the low side of the conversion cycle.
I understand what you’re getting at but my numbers were indeed for the ganged output of the plant cooling towers, i.e.w(t) is the low temperature side of the thermal cycle, and the plant’s total electrical output as w(e). These are two things that can be measured external to the plant and are thus fair game for my manipulations.
The serious question is this: are the aardvark-banana hybrids a valid counter or are they merely a clever diversion?… 🙂
