Power input for a 100MW D-D Polywell?
Power input for a 100MW D-D Polywell?
I have my own very rough calculation based on scaling laws and probably flawed assumptions, but I'm curious what others get.
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I came up with around 5MW of continuous input (so the overall Q is about 20). Of course, this isn't much better than a guess, but assuming it's in the right ballpark I wondered if much thought had gone into the engineering challenge here; do you borrow 5MW from the grid till the thermal cycle generators kick in, install a 5MW generator, or ?
It sounds like in a p-B11, the generation might kick in so fast you could get away with capacitors or huge batteries, but I'm assuming for a thermal generation cycle that's not possible.
I came up with around 5MW of continuous input (so the overall Q is about 20). Of course, this isn't much better than a guess, but assuming it's in the right ballpark I wondered if much thought had gone into the engineering challenge here; do you borrow 5MW from the grid till the thermal cycle generators kick in, install a 5MW generator, or ?
It sounds like in a p-B11, the generation might kick in so fast you could get away with capacitors or huge batteries, but I'm assuming for a thermal generation cycle that's not possible.