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I have my own very rough calculation based on scaling laws and probably flawed assumptions, but I'm curious what others get.

Come on, don't be shy

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'm itching to build hardware, so I don't have a clue yet what kind of power it will take just to keep things at steady state. Until I actually screw things up and fix it, I won't really be sure!

At this point I don't know, so better to keep my mouth shut