Hello Peter,
I was very happy to see this news!
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The essence of the news is:The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel’s photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source and converts them into electricity. The team’s design can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius, or up to about 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit.
The researchers plan to incorporate the TPV cell into a grid-scale thermal battery. The system would absorb excess energy from renewable sources such as the sun and store that energy in heavily insulated banks of hot graphite. When the energy is needed, such as on overcast days, TPV cells would convert the heat into electricity, and dispatch the energy to a power grid.
When combining TPVcells in the QRR,NsiR,... you could obtain higher efficiency because the excess heat can be turned in electricity.
Your team of experts propably saw this news and is maybe already making calculations for this incorporation in the plasmaprocesses.
Peter and the whole team: congratulations for the beautiful future you have build for us and the whole world!
Have a nice sunday
Janneman
