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Seriously, what would be the point of the navy moving Polywell to the classified side? It has been unclass all this time, what would they gain other than a larger admin burden, and proof positive that they are on to something...thus causing others to get serious about it instead of a more or less wait and see for those who are following.IntLibber wrote:I would argue that the amount of funding polywell requires is trivial compared to what the DoE is already wasting on NIF, tokamak, and other immense wastages. I can easily see the Navy getting the DoE's funding for fusion nixed while they move polywell to black budget.
It is not like we could hide the fact we are making a major change to powering ships. Makes no sense.
Yes, I have been wondering about all this too. Why have the inefficiency of creating electricity first, unless you have a very good and cheap source of electricity on board?Like the "Electric Ship" program. We have and are making many changes to new builds as well as retro-fits to move towards all-electric platforms. One of the follow-on programs includes HVDC switchgear. I have provided links to these before.
If I was more optimistic, I would guess that the Navy is expecting to have something coming up for that, could be the Polywell, could be DPFs or some FRC device, or something completely differnt. Definitely noteworthy...
Man that sucks.
I wrote up a bnice post tracking power loads verses propulsion from WWII to modern day, and then lost it.
Crap.
Bottom line,
WWII DD-692 60K SHP with 1MW Electrical (Sumner Class)
Cold War DDG-51 100K SHP with about 7.5MW (Burke Class)
Modern DDG-1000 95K SHP with total power generated at 78MW (Zumwalt Class)
We add about 1.2 MW per decade to non-propulsive power needs.
Propulsive power in WWII was about 30K SHP per shaft, with it now at 50K SHP per shaft.
The normal split between propulsion and ship loads is about 90/10. Recent trends are slowly pushing this to the right. Zumwalt comes in at about 89/11, while CVNs are even more so with EMALS.
The other one was more detailed and thought out, sorry I lost it.
I wrote up a bnice post tracking power loads verses propulsion from WWII to modern day, and then lost it.
Crap.
Bottom line,
WWII DD-692 60K SHP with 1MW Electrical (Sumner Class)
Cold War DDG-51 100K SHP with about 7.5MW (Burke Class)
Modern DDG-1000 95K SHP with total power generated at 78MW (Zumwalt Class)
We add about 1.2 MW per decade to non-propulsive power needs.
Propulsive power in WWII was about 30K SHP per shaft, with it now at 50K SHP per shaft.
The normal split between propulsion and ship loads is about 90/10. Recent trends are slowly pushing this to the right. Zumwalt comes in at about 89/11, while CVNs are even more so with EMALS.
The other one was more detailed and thought out, sorry I lost it.