The plant can be made by many modules each one with its own control electronics. Each module would be a box with something like 6-10 reactors inside in parallel with just one input for the water and one output for the steam, fuel included. They would be connected to each other so that they can be swapped just turning the module off. a 30% of the modules would be off for six months, they would be activated when exhausted modules have to be replaced.
Not impossible to do, but time is really short for doing such a complex integration. mic 2011/5/6 <mix...@bigpond.com>: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 5 May 2011 17:54:35 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] >>If the 2.5 kw unit can only run for 6 months, then having 50 replacement >>sockets won’t matter, since after 6 months all 300 modules must ALL be >>replaced. > > That depends on how long it takes to swap a module. If the computer simply > switches in a new one, and switches out the old one to let it cool off, while > alerting staff, then the old one can be replaced as soon as it is cool. > I wouldn't expect all modules to die at precisely the same time after six > months, due to natural variability in the output. Besides you could stagger > the > process by supplying some with less Nickel than others, so that they > deliberately fail sooner. Then you start the replacement process after say 1 > month, replacing a couple each day. The replacements all have a full load, so > they tend to last another 6 months, maintaining the staggering. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
