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From: Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:48:55 +0100
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On 29/09/2024 22:40, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> On 29/09/2024 22:00, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now China plans to build the world’s first NPP based on molten salt 
>>> in the
>>> Gobi desert. [..]
>>
>> Okay, I am missing something somewhere.  In order to make a heat engine
>> work (and generating power from nuclear reactions traditionally employs
>> a heat engine), you need a hot thing and a cold thing and a way to move
>> heat from one to the other.  The hot thing is the reactor, but where is
>> the cold thing in the middle of the Gobi desert.  CO2 is fine for 
>> transferring
>> heat (at low temperatures) but where do we put it?
> 
> It's a molten salt reactor, so the working fluid and the hot end of the 
> CO2 cycle is at at least 800C. Even Gobi air is way cool enough for that.

Oh, and the Gobi is a cold desert. With ice fields and stuff.

Peter Fairbrother