Re:Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time
by coryrc on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:02AM
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Heat pumps aren't great above 80°C more-or-less.
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Re:Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time
by Gwypaas on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:13AM
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Just naïvely I would think that you used multi stage heat-pumps with different heat transfer fluids? Unless the process heat is thousands of degrees, but then we are already using inefficient methods like arc furnaces.