Reply To: The North Atlantic Current

[Aeronaut]

Henning wrote:

Rather, we’d need to experiment with pulse rate, cooling, electrode life tradeoffs, overhaul scheduling and costs, etc. to determine how many of our stackable modules are optimum for, say, repowering a 1.6GW coal-fired plant.

That’s actually engineering. What we need to establish, is the correct order of magnitude of energy output compared to energy input. The goal for FoFu 1 is to show that QT > 1 (thermal energy output bigger than energy input). Next step is to show that’s QE > 1 (electric energy output bigger than energy input) with FoFu 2. Only after that we can start twiddeling with pulse rates and stuff.

Excellent points, Henning, and I agree. I’m more at home designing and building things than I am in a science/lab environment.