Reply To: Nuplex.

[Aeronaut]

I stand both enlightened and confused, Rematog. I had no idea we were talking that much pressure or that many stages. Something else that’s adding to my confusion is the apparent very high temperatures (degrees C, K, electron volts, etc.) at or barely off the electrodes that must be removed.

One of the reasons I keep hammering away at this is that engineering this “waste” heat into existing infrastructure could make our 5MW plant marketable as a 7 to 9 MW, greener than grass plant thats in step with the times.

Another, even more important reason is that for every high profile idea there is some jerk(s) who will grab headlines by attacking it. That is why I believe we better build an efficient system. Imagine trying to sell the world the concept of millions of these little power plants, each throwing off more heat per hour than I can really wrap my head around.

In the marketing world, perceptions are more important than facts, and that many new BTUs is screaming to be labeled as the Polar Blowtorch that’s going to submerge half the world.

The only parts that I don’t believe we’ve really touched on are the temperature of the formerly cryogenic helium transferring 17M BTU/hr into our feed water, along with the size and energy requirements of helium cooling loop.

I’d like to see FF locomotives as well as ships. Seems that getting it to work in a utility setting would be the first size/mass/net output hurdle.