Re: Combined Cycle Combustion/Plasma Rocket?

From: Keith Willshaw (keithspam_at_kwillshaw.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:57:22 -0000

"Carey Sublette" <careysub@earthling.net> wrote in message
news:apXld.26874$KJ6.11353@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>
> "Keith Willshaw" <keithspam@kwillshaw.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cn6akk$dje$1
> ...
>> No I'm being an engineer, vapourware doesnt count.
>> The only hardware alternative out there is Topaz 2
> ...
>
> This is clearly Keith's bottom line.
>
> He refuses to discuss any reactor designs except old Soviet systems, which
> are as poor an advertisement for future space reactor technology as their
> RBMKs would be for future commerical power technology.
>

Nobody has presented an alternative design to critique.
Feel free to do so

> You are not get a discussion of technical possibilities going with him

Actually if you look back at the start of the thread you will find I
was proposing the Pratt and Whitney Triton nuclear drive.
The baseline TRITON engine is powered by a fast-spectrum
beryllium-reflected CERMET-fueled nuclear reactor.
It uses a dual turbopump arrangement driven by an expander
cycle using LH2 and a gas generator add-on to drive the LANTR (
LOX Augmented Nuclear Thermal Rocket)

When the TRITON is operating in electrical power mode ,
the reactor operating at less than 1% maximum thermal capability.
In this sub-level thermal power mode, the reactor is used to
heat a mixture of helium and xenon to drive a closed-loop
power conversion cycle.

> (unless it is about future, but currently non-existent, solar power
> systems).

Those non-existent solar power system are working aboard
spacecraft right now.

http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/tech/ionpropfaq.html

Keith

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