▲ | Reason077 3 days ago | |||||||
1.9 MWt still seems like a huge amount of energy/heat for something that fits on a truck and is supposedly air-cooled (they claim no water is required). Where does all that heat go?! They must have some very impressive fans. | ||||||||
▲ | colechristensen 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Heat transfer has the lovely property of scaling nonlinearly by temperature difference. You need a lot of big fans to cool your CPU from 75C on the die to a 25C room, instead of a 50C difference these reactors will dump heat at hundreds of degrees C warmer than the local environment. | ||||||||
▲ | tralarpa 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Yes, that's crazy. They say up to 1 MW electric which would mean (33% efficiency) 2 MW of heat to get rid of with air cooling. Later they mention facility heating which sounds more realistic, I guess? | ||||||||
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