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Why use plutonium when sunlight is everywhere? Any proposals to use concentrated solar power instead of Pu238 as a heat source for TGs?
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OP's question basically includes all the information needed to show that RTGs outperform solar concentration.
The 8m concentrator OP proposes would weigh ~12 kg, per the ...
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