Hargraves book, part 2

I smell a new series in the works.  I'm really beginning to like this book because it is a fertile source of new ideas.

For example, Weinberg's group produced a reactor for the Aircraft Reactor Experiment, which was called the "Fireball".  The key feature of the Fireball was its ability to run really hot.  Hot enough to run jet engines which could use atmospheric air as a reaction mass.  According to the text, this was about 850 degrees Centigrade.

This gives me some ideas about kilns, which I propose to use to make calcium oxide from calcium carbonate.  It so happens that this process requires heat at fairly close to this temperature.  Now, if you were to make use of this heat from a Fireball, you can make the calcium oxide.

That's one idea.  There are others that have nothing to do with kilns.

Now, as far as kilns are concerned, the production of quick lime ( calcium oxide ), can proceed in the most energy efficient manner as possible.  We should want this in order to minimize the cost of the quicklime.

The ammonia needed for the fuel cells can be produced directly by combining soda ash with quicklime.  But that is an alternative.  In any case, you are still producing useful products.  Or you can just recycle it indefinitely with ammonium carbonate and quicklime.  This will get you back to limestone and that can be shipped back to the Fireball and recycled.

You can tie the production of quicklime into the production of ammonium carbonate.  I described this process before as a way to make a closed loop system for the safe and economical transport of hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cells.  Now this series doesn't have to be a new series, ( but it germinate a new one anyway) it can be linked to the existing series on the outputs of the proposed system.  Called this x+2 of the series of posts.  X+1 was here.