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Re: June 2 Meeting in Lansing
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Mon, 28 May 2001 00:49:49 GMT
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Trevor,
> The dat I sent you does not have a top built yet. The second one I sent you
> (which also doesn't have a top) has only one reactor and one turbine
> housing. I have built my power building to that scale, but have also added
> the boiler. What happens in fission CANDU (Canadian) reactors is that the
> heavy water is needed to make the reaction work. If the water is lost, then
> the reaction stops. No melt down. The heavy water becomes super heated and
> is run though coils that are submersed in a vat of regular water. The heat
> is transfered and the regular water boils and creates a large amount of
> steam. This steam is used to drive electrical turbines. So in reality,
> although there is much much more to the process than that, the power
> generating process in a fission reactor is no different than old boiler
> generators. And that is essentially how a fusion reactor would work
> (provided the process is efficient enough and produces way more than the
> energy put into it to start the fusion process. Right now we get about 50%
> out of what we put it, which is not bad considering how much we have learned
> in the process). The fusion process produces the heat of a small star, and
> creates A LOT of thermal energy. The cooling water would be used to heat
> regular water in the same process as the fission reactor. If there are
> better processes involved, I don't know them because I understand fission
> better than fusion. Took a course on it in school.
>
> :^) The tower which I have built sits on the main building roof and is a
> tapered/conical structure. In reality the steam water would be circled
> around the inside of the tower and the heat would be extracted into the
> general atmosphere, thereby condensing the water. The farther up north you
> are, the less need you have for a tower. (There are no towers in Canada)
> We just dump the water into a lake because the water used for generating
> steam does not contain radioactive isotopes. Anyways, for a colony we would
> have to assume that if these are largery pre-engineered designs and we
> cannot assume that there will be a large body of water at the site. Water
> has to be processed and reclaimed. Which is what Scott's facility is all
> about: Water reclamation and waste processing. This is what one would
> expect in a colony in my mind. I am open to other suggestions, of course.
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> PS: the interior detail for my power building is way better than what was
> sent in the .dat. I'll get some pics made, or I'll bring it to next weeks
> meet.
Cool, I think we need to discuss some of it. I will start the water
processor this week, I think, I need to get some more stuff on E-Bay first
(I can't wait for Lynn to start working!) but I will start on it this week.
I will look at those dats at work maybe. Could you send the latest there?
(My computer just doesn't cut it anymore.)
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