Defkalion responds to a reader re: the possibility of DGT's Hyperions replacing the Fukishima reactors: http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=431&p=3617#p3617 ___________________________________________________
Could the steam temperature be safely raised to 600 degrees C or higher for more efficient large scale energy production? The 414C output (from the external heat exchangers) is the upper limit for safe operation of Hyperions at the moment (ie according to the present generation of technology of the reactor and the product design). Any future development raising this upper limit will require further careful redesign and testing of all product's architecture designs, materials in use etc to guarantee the highest safety levels required by law and regulations for any energy production product. What would be the minimum temperature required to make such power plants cost effective? 245-260C, based on the existing steam turbine technologies. Obviously, for such large power plants natural gas would be the preferred start-up heat source, right? Yes, this is one solution out of several available. We can not say yet if it is preferred on no. Comments? Using LENR technologies in large scale as a base source of energy , is obviously a huge challenge as far as this will reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous or environmental non-friendly row materials such as radioactive, coal of hydrocarbons. According to our understanding the exploitation of technologies such as Hyperions, meets a second challenge of the same importance: the preparation of the gradual transition to the next generation of power networks, moving away from their present hierarchical topologies -that require plants like Fukushima and insufficient distribution networks (in terms of economics, energy loses and monstrous sized supporting organizations). Maybe the future energy (heat and electricity) networks topologies will look more like the Internet topology (as described also by Jerremy Rifkin in "The Hydrogen Economy" http://www.foet.org/books/hydrogen-economy.html ). We envision and hope Hyperions to play a certain role in such transition in analogy to the PC role in the mean we use in our communication right now. Thank you for your question PS The server hosting this forum or the searching machine you use every day are not not based on a main-frame any more. Arrays of hundreds of PC work perfectly and efficiently. Maybe we have to skip the "mainframe" stage of evolution this time, don't you think? ____________________________ To view all of Defkalion's responses since site inception: http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/search.php?keywords=&terms=all&author=Defkalion+GT&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
