From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <3cbfb824.0402110953.131609d2@posting.google.com>,   
   Asherian  wrote:   
   >Does anybody know whether Project Prometheus is going to use a   
   >turbine-driven generator or an MHD?   
      
   Nobody's made any decisions at that level of detail.  It might well do   
   something like thermionic conversion.   
      
   MHD is actually pretty unlikely.  As I understand it, making reliable,   
   long-lived MHD systems is an unsolved problem.   
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