Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoRussia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moonintlmonitor.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoIsn’t there water in the lunar regolith?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThere are a lot of seas on the Moon after all.
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoEarth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.
minus-squarenaeaplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSounds pretty costly to bring all that up But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?
minus-squareZorg@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoCould you skip the turbine and slap a bunch of peltier elements on the reactor? Probably not super efficient, what with the vacuum of space being bad at absorbing hear, and if I recall right peltier produces more power the larger heat gradient.
Big radiators?
Filled with water from where?
Isn’t there water in the lunar regolith?
There are a lot of seas on the Moon after all.
Earth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.
Sounds pretty costly to bring all that up
But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?
Could you skip the turbine and slap a bunch of peltier elements on the reactor?
Probably not super efficient, what with the vacuum of space being bad at absorbing hear, and if I recall right peltier produces more power the larger heat gradient.