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Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected by Sharlin on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:46AM (#43034961)
Most inefficient thermal power plant possible: utilize the difference in neutrino flux between the hemisphere that's open to space vs. the hemisphere where Earth is in the way.

But now I'm wondering what percentage of the useful thermal power in a nuclear power plant is produced by the neutrinos created in the reactions (the infinitesimally small fraction that happen to interact with the matter within the reactor, that is).

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Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:50AM (#43035792)
On the contrary, it would have to be efficient indeed to do anything useful underneath all of the shielding that we'd need to keep those baser forms of radiation at bay. Gamma rays: yuck.
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