The Egg, an at Home Nuclear Reactor(enron.com) |
The Egg, an at Home Nuclear Reactor(enron.com) |
https://westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/evinci-micror...
Other names to google: NuScale VOYGR™ Micro (77MW scalable), Oklo Aurora (1.5MW), Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) (5MW thermal, 1.5MW electric), Rolls-Royce SMR (470 MW), HolosGen HolosQuad (3-13 MW), X-energy Xe-100 (80 MW)
Legality aside, could one design a desktop RTG with a practical power output? Say with an open-cycle boiling-water design, to keep things simple.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
The general rtg use cases care less about efficiency than long term reliability though so that’s why they use thermocouples. But it would be reasonably trivial to use a Stirling engine instead (unless you’re going to extreme environments where mechanical parts no longer work well)
“This product is gonna revolutionize three critical industries. The power industry, the independence industry, and the freedom industry. This product is gonna revolutionize all three,” Enron CEO Connor Gaydos claimed in a video presentation announcing the egg.
Gaydos is also the co-founder of the satirical “Birds Aren't Real” movement, which asserts that all real birds existing in the U.S. had been forcibly made extinct and were replaced by the government with surveillance drones that look like birds.
Without humor the only option is to end up in controversial squabbles.
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https://www.ibtimes.com/enrons-satirical-comeback-meet-enron...
Would this really be more toxic than common refrigerants? Or e.g. hydrazine?
After criticality, the contents are more toxic than hydrazine. Nuclear reactors are safe because so much engineering and procedural effort goes into keeping the fuel and its fission products contained. The fission products include extremely toxic materials. Strontium-90, one of the more common medium-lifetime fission products, has an acute gram-for-gram lethality comparable to the nerve gas sarin. The fast-decaying fission products like strontium-89 are even worse, though by their very nature they don't persist for long in discarded fuel.
https://cryptoslate.com/enron-is-back-now-focused-on-decentr...
But a lot other s*itcoins beat them to it. And is flooding the crypto market with "fake" Enron coins.
2) Use the heat given off to generate more power
The Enron logo has a couple of similarities to the Next computers logo.
it doesn't seem very sophisticated but I'm not sure what else you'd call it.