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[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Supercritical CO2 has been looked at a lot for the Brayton cycle which can get 50% efficiency compared to steam that generally caps out around 34%

The US and china both published studies talking about a brayton turbine but to my knowledge no commercial plants running off of it have been built yet