Supercritical, not superconducting.
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jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Didn’t China recently use super conducting CO2 instead of water?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Alberat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
idk but you can also use molten salt
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.
Alberat@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
oh thanks i didnt know or forgot
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is what I think of when I hear molten salt.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
That sounds great.
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