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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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