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    • naeap
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      10 months ago

      Filled with water from where?

      • Steve@startrek.website
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        10 months ago

        Earth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.

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          10 months ago

          Sounds pretty costly to bring all that up
          But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?

          • Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            10 months ago

            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.