boiling water again

i mean, they can run the plasma through some magnetic fields…

But it’s less efficient that boiling water.

Magnetohydrodynamic generator - Wikipedia

www.darpa.mil/research/programs/rads-watts too.

But yeah, steam turbines are remarkably efficient and if you are designing a reactor today, you definitely assume one of them will be used.

Rads to Watts | DARPA

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