From: damon16ONE@attbi.dotcomma.retro.com   
      
   henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in   
   news:Hsy7tn.916@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.   
      
   How would thermionic conversion work?  I keep imagining   
   a big vacuum tube triode set up as an oscillator...   
   The cathode being directly heated by the reactor.   
      
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