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Originally Posted by tsofian
The original designers incorporated fusion power so teams would not need to chase fuel all the time. As with a lot of decisions they made there are a number of unintended consequences that cascade from this
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TX Reactor[edit]
Parameters:
• 7 m diameter × 18 m long, 1 m thick blankets
• 320 MW gross
• 40 MW heating power, 2.3 s
• n = 5×1020 m−3
• β = 1 (field = 2.3 T)
• V = 16.3 m3, 51 MJ total energy
• Ti = 9.6 keV
• Te = 12.6 keV
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How much would a bolt hole need?
Here is my guess. Each Freeze tube needs 2 kW of power to maintain its temperature. Warming would need a much higher peak load so let’s say the standard 8 person hole could cruise on 30 kW and would peak at 100 kW during wake up.
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This fusion plant isn’t too much bigger than a vehicle one.
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Just a question to clarify something for me. When you say "This fusion plant isn’t too much bigger than a vehicle one," what are you referring to? The T4B experiments resulted in the TX being physically as large as it is, large enough to park 6 V-150s inside, to (theoretically) produce 320MW. The output of a "standard" size vehicle reactor has to be around 150KW. Your bolt hole calculations make that reactor needing to output only about 150KW to be safe, so is the output the size you are refering to?