Reply To: Nuplex.

[Aeronaut]

Rematog, I can see that it’s going to require a 4 year degree for me to discuss this intelligently in numbers. My initial target problem for FF to solve was powering ships, trains, industry, and large buildings. When its small and light enough, it could power semi trucks for even larger carbon emissions reductions. This thread has forced me to learn a lot about steam plants to minimize or eliminate your industry being stuck with incompletely depreciated capital assets, which could remelt Wall Street.

Besides, America’s energy appetite is 60 to 80% electric, depending on who’s numbers you use. I’d like to see that exceed 95% within 10 years to help control liquid fuel costs by reducing demand for foreign oil.

What I meant by leverage can be extended to using FF’s electrical output to power your monstrous motors, lights, and everything else that reduces your net power output. Another 3 to 5 MW of heating capacity does not have to make 1st stage operating steam directly, since I understand you have reheated steam entering at least 1 of your 21 stages.

To my untrained eye, 2 energy conversions in particular caught my eye- burning coal to heat air to heat steam tubes to heat water into steam is the first one. Any pre-heating is going to reduce your fuel consumption and EPA exposure. The second is that you’re running a condenser instead of reheating that purified feed water. Granted that water is easier to heat with helium than steam, but being on the Gulf, my guess is your condensers have a lot of scheduled downtime due to corrosion.

In summary, I’ve been trying to adapt FF to your plant as an auxiliary energy source, rather than the economically threatening scenario of new steam equipment or the dogmatically threatening scenario of replacing coal with fusion.