Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Fairbrother Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:48:55 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ef7f3821fa3e3ec31d069511e8cc351e"; logging-data="2031994"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qv3JR/g6enS2Cp7nKoIf1QwIoSJeiCJs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:w49NUgBFJmWPamvC8Ue9YfbovAU= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2187 On 29/09/2024 22:40, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > On 29/09/2024 22:00, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> D  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