Comment on Turbine go brrrr

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Supercritical CO2 has been looked at a lot for the Brayton cycle which can get 50% efficiency compared to steam that generally caps out around 34%

  The US and china both published studies talking about a brayton turbine but to my knowledge no commercial plants running off of it have been built yet

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• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Supercritical, not superconducting.

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• Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  idk but you can also use molten salt

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  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can use molten salt to move and store heat but you don’t put it through a turbine. Molten salt systems run it through a heat exchanger that heats steam or CO2.

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    • Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      oh thanks i didnt know or forgot

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    youtu.be/OC9RI8_QYmw

    This is what I think of when I hear molten salt.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That sounds great.

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