From: David L. Babcock * We are trying to run a steam engine, not a co-generation plant or an endless sink for fire extinguisher bottles, and therefore the only logical cooling source is the steam engine itself, that is, the boiling process that feeds it.
Without necessarily disagreeing completely with your analysis, as it does represent a likely scenario, and possibly the default situation should nothing else work - there is one alternative route which would please everyone – far more so than going to steam for conversion to electricity. Although little gamma radiation or neutrons are seen, we can probably assume that the excess energy begins with a flux of high energy particles of some type – alpha, beta, soft x-rays or UV. If so, then given the low fuel inventory – it is clear that the most efficient route to electricity is optoelectric. Go to light first and then to electricity. This has been done with conventional nuclear energy, despite the problems and higher required inventory of reactant - but it would be more suitable for LENR – a “natural” for use with the dogbone since the gram of fuel would be easy to contain as a “dusty plasma” in a more translucent tube than the kind being used. A piezo could be used to avoid settling of particles and it would be synergetic to the operation (as with sonofusion). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectric_nuclear_battery Jones
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