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[Interview] Improving Nuclear Power Generators for Future Space Missions
Description
Solar power has its limits. Some space missions will need an alternative source of power like RTGs. How can we make them better? Which fuel is optimal for them and why? How to convert heat into electricity? Finding out in this interview.
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🟣 Guest: Tyler Bernstein
https://www.zenopower.com/
00:00 Intro
01:48 What is an RTG?
05:43 Different isotopes
19:25 Possible missions
28:07 Stirling engines
33:48 Current obsessions
43:02 Final thougths and more interviews
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