Reply To: Mind, Spirit, Science connection?

[zapkitty]

Do note that the exhaust temp of 200 C for the cooling system was for a proposed portable 2 MWe FF unit housed in a shipping container. That’s an entirely different setup than the classical 5 MWe power unit you are using for your examples.

200 C was appropriate for the lower output unit and enabled a generator that could be placed almost anywhere. A fixed installation such as the 5 MWe station “the size of a two-car garage” would have a higher upper limit on its exhaust… temps in excess of 700 C 🙂

And in the “garage” style station the cooling system need not be crammed into the same shipping container as an FF. So the intermediate water or oil loop can also be omitted. Direct air cooling for the heat sink where the helium dumps the core heat..