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Originally Posted by jyl
NASA has developed a fission reactor the size of a desk wastebasket that produces about 1 kW or about 1.3 HP. A larger model - but not that much larger - produces about 10 kW or 13 HP. For decades . . .
https://www.popsci.com/nuclear-reactors-mars |
By "car" do you mean RC models?
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The Kilopower reactor is designed to operate at two sizes, a one kilowatt (1,000 watt) model and a 10 kilowatt model.
“Your toaster uses about a kilowatt,” Pat McClure, Kilopower project lead at Los Alamos, says with a laugh.“In your average household, you use about 5 KW on average a day, at any given time. Realize, though, that this is a lot of energy for NASA. At NASA they’re used to tens to hundreds of watts. So to have a kilowatt or 10 kilowatts is a lot of electricity.”
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I'm thinking they could use solar panels and get the same energy, no clouds on Mars.
However, don't they have storms that can tear up solar panels and wind generators - or is that just in the movies?