How to make electricity.2 Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How to make electricity.2
# 1619 byspacework@... on Aug. 7, 2001, 1:35 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
"Nuclear Power is probably the least glamorous of the four
alternative energy forms because of its reputation. Unlike solar
power, where the primary barrier to use it are cost, the problem of
pollution and possible ecological hazard remains at the forefront of
most people's minds. Several key nuclear disasters have caused this
impression in most of the world. The nuclear power history page at
starts with the invention of the steam engine which was really the
basic mechanical setup that led to the invention of the automobile,
and the nuclear power plant.
Ironically, the principles that underly the nuclear power process are
almost exactly like the combustion process, and the steam engine that
was used to power trains. A chemical procedure that is exothermic
(producing heat) increases the temperature of some liquid until the
liquid evaporates as a gas. This gas is then either directly or
indirectly used to do work on a turbine that moves a generator.
http://library.thinkquest.org/17658/nuc/nucintroht.html
"
George
http://cygo.com/