Distribute rotarycraft power evenly?

[Optibane]

In relation to the nuclear power debate, I encourage everyone to watch Pandora's Promise. It is a documentary about environmentalists who have come to the realization that nuclear power is actually the best option for baseload power generation. It also addresses much of the misconception, misinformation, and hyperbole associated with nuclear, including safety and waste management.

I could go on and on about the various energy options and issues (I work for an electric utility) but I'll spare you the rant.


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[YX33A]

In relation to the nuclear power debate, I encourage everyone to watch Pandora's Promise. It is a documentary about environmentalists who have come to the realization that nuclear power is actually the best option for baseload power generation. It also addresses much of the misconception, misinformation, and hyperbole associated with nuclear, including safety and waste management.

I could go on and on about the various energy options and issues (I work for an electric utility) but I'll spare you the rant.


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Heh, just quoting you, but everyone involved with the discussion about nuclear reactors reminds me of a mini-summit my class had in grade five. I wanted to be on nuclear power, but got solar. I still defended the nuclear group like I was one. Just had to split my discussion between the benefits of solar power and the benefits of nuclear power, and shooting down the supposed downsides to nuclear power and solar power.

 

[YX33A]

Anyway, @Reika, mind running us(but mainly me, I suppose) through how a double cycle reactor would work? I actually have very little clue how one would make even a double-cycle reactor would work.
I admit, I haven't gotten very far into RoC or ReactorCraft, but when I can, it'd be yet another goal I wish to achive, a way to run a HTGR with Ammonia. It must be possible, and you seem to imply some tricks may exist to get the heat down to a safe enough level. Is there a heat exchanger or something? Haven't really looked much into the ReactorCraft Handbook.(unlike the RotaryCraft handbook, which I've devoured with my eyes several times over by now)

 

[Reika]

Bummer. Does that mean that core proximity to each other has no effect in an HTGR? Or do the blocks interact on a check/execute level rather than using free neutrons to provoke additional fissions?

I guess I'll move to the backup project of emulating a real-life reactor core fuel rod arrangement and incorporate some irradiation chambers in it to make tritium.

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HTGRs only interact via direct contact.

Anyway, @Reika, mind running us(but mainly me, I suppose) through how a double cycle reactor would work? I actually have very little clue how one would make even a double-cycle reactor would work.
I admit, I haven't gotten very far into RoC or ReactorCraft, but when I can, it'd be yet another goal I wish to achive, a way to run a HTGR with Ammonia. It must be possible, and you seem to imply some tricks may exist to get the heat down to a safe enough level. Is there a heat exchanger or something? Haven't really looked much into the ReactorCraft Handbook.(unlike the RotaryCraft handbook, which I've devoured with my eyes several times over by now)

The heat exchanger would be used to transfer heat, yes.

 

[YX33A]

HTGRs only interact via direct contact.



The heat exchanger would be used to transfer heat, yes.

Ah. So in that case it's a matter of playing heat transfer plinko, in a matter of speaking. Scatter the heat enough that it is low enough to be used safely for ammonia but not far enough that a lot, or ideally any, is wasted.

 

[Pyure]

Ah. So in that case it's a matter of playing heat transfer plinko, in a matter of speaking. Scatter the heat enough that it is low enough to be used safely for ammonia but not far enough that a lot, or ideally any, is wasted.

This is sounding more and more like an RGB Reactor (Rube GoldBerg)

Gotta ask: test world or regular playing one?

 

[MajPayne21]

I would use a split heat exchanger setup where I had a single 'hot' exchanger straight from the reactor touching 2-3 'medium' exchangers so the temperature was reduced by dispersing the heat through more volume of coolant.

How violent, exactly, is an ammonia explosion?

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[YX33A]

This is sounding more and more like an RGB Reactor (Rube GoldBerg)

Gotta ask: test world or regular playing one?

Considering Creative mode doesn't play nice for me, Creative Mode+ if I run any tests, or normal gameplay if I do it live, like a real man.

 

[Reika]

I would use a split heat exchanger setup where I had a single 'hot' exchanger straight from the reactor touching 2-3 'medium' exchangers so the temperature was reduced by dispersing the heat through more volume of coolant.

How violent, exactly, is an ammonia explosion?

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Not very, but every boiler and steam line connected will be destroyed. The loss of a heat sink in the reactor tends to cause a meltdown to follow.

 

[MajPayne21]

I would test every stage with boilers and monitor their temperature for a while. If I could verify that the boilers never got above 200C, that would give me enough safety margin to use ammonia.

What's the best way to handle multiple steps? Heat exchanger intaking hot CO2 touching what? Heat exchanger using water? What is the appropriate block/working fluid to accept heat from an exchanger so that the heat can then be transferred to another exchanger?

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[Reika]

I would test every stage with boilers and monitor their temperature for a while. If I could verify that the boilers never got above 200C, that would give me enough safety margin to use ammonia.

What's the best way to handle multiple steps? Heat exchanger intaking hot CO2 touching what? Heat exchanger using water? What is the appropriate block/working fluid to accept heat from an exchanger so that the heat can then be transferred to another exchanger?

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Water is your only other choice.

 

[Not_Steve]

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Just a quick question. How many coding languages do you know? Clearly you know java but what else?

 

[Reika]

Just a quick question. How many coding languages do you know? Clearly you know java but what else?

The first I learned was BASIC, then C, then Assembler, then Java. So, "officially", four. I also have dabbled in C++ with ardunios, however, so I know enough of that to do basic programs. I suppose you can also count Lua in the same category now, given that I relearned it for CC in my SSP world.

So, four well, and two more passably.

 

[Not_Steve]

The first I learned was BASIC, then C, then Assembler, then Java. So, "officially", four. I also have dabbled in C++ with ardunios, however, so I know enough of that to do basic programs. I suppose you can also count Lua in the same category now, given that I relearned it for CC in my SSP world.

So, four well, and two more passably.

Good God you learned assembler? Like really learned it? That sounds mind numbingly tedious

 

[Reika]

Good God you learned assembler? Like really learned it? That sounds mind numbingly tedious

Assembler is not a nice language to use.