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You caught me living in the past with 5mm aluminum hulls, zapkitty.

Did anybody ever come up with a description of how it's shielded from cosmic radiation? The wiki editors are dieing to know, also.

"Actually I'm nit picking here but CV stands for C=Carrier V=Fixed Wing Aircraft N= Nuclear. Thus CV= Carrier Fixed Wing Aircraft CVN=Carrier Fixed Wing Aircraft Nuclear."

Ahhh... CV(N)=bird farm, and can be extended to powering the cruise ship industry.

Thinking big, those modules must have well over 800 square meters of aluminum surface that could make up for lost radiative efficiency while reducing capital expense and launch weights by eliminating the dedicated radiators.

Well, I see that if they are that small, they could probably have applications in areas where larger systems can not be used? Like heating and electricity for small communities. This thing seems to be cheap enough for that. Yes, that's precisely what I had in mind when I postulated a world with sev...

Great job on the FAQ wiki, KitemanSA. Couldn't find what CV means, but I did gain a much better understanding of how a PW may function and fit into the existing power grid. I also visited the EMC2 site and saw a sketch of a much smaller PW cube. Surely that's not the 100 MW size for a drop-in reacto...

Thanx for the link, KitemanSA. @Kunkmeister, I agree about the cryo motors. Hadn't thought about cryo busses and multiple cryo plants. Looks like this is going to be huge. More on the lines of a Spruance class destroyer or a DDG-5x class like the Cole. Maybe one retrofit for the operational testbed,...

Is there a definitions doc or thread that could be expanded to become an introductory crash course? The reasons I learned Focus Fusion first are the more compact design and more newbie friendly materials. Although I see FF reaching unity and production first, it and the PW are wonderfully complement...

Fascinating. Assuming the door is anywhere near scale, this would extend vertically into a destroyer's aft deckhouse. Can't wait to see some indications of the supporting subsystems. I can see this model needing about the same engineering spaces' volume as a 107x class fast frigate (FF 1070) or FFG...

Fascinating. Assuming the door is anywhere near scale, this would extend vertically into a destroyer's aft deckhouse. Can't wait to see some indications of the supporting subsystems. I can see this model needing about the same engineering spaces' volume as a 107x class fast frigate (FF 1070) or FFG ...

Cooling limits are expected somewhere between the 5MW to 20MW range, and again, I expect market pressures to keep extending it, something like HDD capacity. Yes, once (if) we get to see a working fusion reactor concept, things will get improved upon really quickly. From what I understand DPFs are r...

So two dipoles couldn't share the same drift tube and the plasmoid is stationary in space. If the tube was off to one side I was hoping either two dipoles could make a larger plasmoid or collide two plasmoids. Hopefully anode cooling won't be a killer show stopper for them. The FF's ion beam is ver...

I'd be curious if they could improve performance by placing another dipole in the chamber opposite the main one, but fire it with reverse polarity at the same time. They would have to be spaced apart to prevent arching but allow for a single larger plasmoid. Wouldn't work, Choff, because that's whe...

Thanx for the link, Skipjack. He did an excellent job of explaining the program without getting bogged down in theory.

Thanx for the link, MSimon. I read and studied the pix on the entire thread, and now have some type of an understanding how the PW should work. Torulf, your work always blows me away! Great images, as always. Just didn't realize they were spread between flickr and photobucket. Kiteman, the target th...

Mostly it is just words. Quite correct, words, no numbers let alone drawings. There is no experimental data ... it is one step removed from cartoon engineering, call it somewhere between sci-fi and fairy-tale engineering. Cartoon engineering was good enough for the Idaho National Lab and Iter. It's...