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[zapkitty]

Aeronaut wrote:

So could we get away with, what, two shipping containers for a fully self-contained DPF installation? Or would the cooling and transformers require more space than that?

Some cherry-picked applications could have very small apparent cooling and or transformer requirements…

But if you don’t have cogeneration or trigeneration as an option (or quantum dots 🙂 )then you’ll have to deal with 5 megawatts of waste heat for the classic FF DPF… which means that one shipping container would actually be a 1400 RT cooling tower in disquise that you’d stand on end in a nearby pond…

… had to come down from orbit to look that up :)… while the vacuum of space produces serious challenges in cooling, I think there’d be some difficulties with a radiator 11 meters on a side jutting out of your planetside power facility while running at 400 degrees C…

and a wtf sig for today…
“Sub-megawatt boxes for space!”

… we return now to earthbound considerations… anyone have a clue yet as to what the raw output voltages might look like?

… still assuming that the net power comes from the onion…