All replicators have to test first alone LIH to know how fast its breathes then ONLY adding powders .
As well as you should know if this behavior remains in relation with standard LIH breathing .. or not.
Initially in the mix, there was metal Li ready to react with H.
But you are right, firstly, the understanding of basic chemistry and physics occurring inside the reactor is the first step to go.
axil: You seem to miss most content of Mills work. The word cooling and heat transfer are synonyms. The actual, first to be sold version of the SUN-CELL is just a heater, as I already said (my prognosis) a year ago. Mills generates XUV that is far brigther than the sun. It's even to strong (intense) for current available high-power PVC. SUN-CELL XUV is not 200nm is starting at 10nm.
The problem is, that even Mills might not understand, what really is going on in his machine. In reality he has a table top fusion reactor.
The area under the curve describes the power that is produced by the 3000K carbon radiator. It looks to me that the power produced in the visible range is just 10% or less of the power available in the light spectrum produced by the SunCell. That visible range is subject to another percentage reduction based on the efficiency of the solar cells. As an estimate, 5% or less of the optical power produced by the SunCell is converted to electricity.
Note that at 3000K, a black body radiator will convert most of the energy it emits as infrared radiation. It is true that the SunCell reaction produce loads of energy as XUV but the carbon sphere converts most of that energy to infrared radiation thus wasting most of that light energy.
A better design for a thermal based SubCell is to capture heat in a layer of supercritical CO2 confined in the space between a concentric double sphere (BA) with the inner layer (A) being a translucent sphere of boron nitride that confines the CO2 and the outer sphere (B) composed of graphite which is the black body radiator.
The efficiency of a CO2 supercritical turbine operating at temperature of 3000K is around 90%..
The area under the curve describes the power that is produced by the 3000K carbon radiator. It looks to me that the power produced in the visible range is just 10% or less of the power available in the light spectrum produced by the SunCell. That visible range is subject to another percentage reduction based on the efficiency of the solar cells. As an estimate, 5% or less of the optical power produced by the SunCell is converted to electricity.
axil : Mills first idea was to directly convert XUV into current by high power PVC, which are able to convert (1000-1500 times) concentrated sun-light. But Mills lacks some knowledge. He was not aware, that concentrating sunlight will leave the spectrum intact!, whereas the SUN-CELL spectrum is at least 10 time more energetic compared to the suns (on earth!) spectrum.
The only solution would be to find a chemical with a reasonable UV break-up cascade, to down modulate the spectrum into SUN-like regions.
The second mistake he made, was to neglect that he needs a window between the radiation and the PVC and how he could keep this window open. Silver vapor will close down any surface.
This are reasons why products should be developped by engineers not by scientists.
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axil : Mills first idea was to directly convert XUV into current by high power PVC, which are able to convert (1000-1500 times) concentrated sun-light. But Mills lacks some knowledge. He was not aware, that concentrating sunlight will leave the spectrum intact!, whereas the SUN-CELL spectrum is at least 10 time more energetic compared to the suns (on earth!) spectrum.
The only solution would be to find a chemical with a reasonable UV break-up cascade, to down modulate the spectrum into SUN-like regions.
The second mistake he made, was to neglect that he needs a window between the radiation and the PVC and how he could keep this window open. Silver vapor will close down any surface.
This are reasons why products should be developped by engineers not by scientists.
Silver will coat the carbon sphere that faces the plasma.
Based on Layered Composite Thermal Insulation as follows:
A highly insulated N concentric sphere setup that holds CO2 between the spaces between the concentric sphere shells will produce a radiator whose outer surface is at room temperature and its innermost shell is at 3000K.
The innermost shell produces CO2 at 3000K. Outer shells could be made from stainless steel to save cost. CO2 cooled to room temperature returning from the turbine can flow from the outer shells to the innermost shall extracting heat from each shell layer thus cooling each shell layer progressively in turn as the flow of CO2 travels inward. Little heat energy is lost in this setup to the ambient.
