Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Aeronaut]

Thanx, Rematog. I was overdue for a good laugh.

Seriously, though, we’ve been taking an engineering point of view towards distributing 5MW per FF unit. Just because the FF can crank out 5MW steadily if all goes well doesn’t mean every application will require that much power. How often do most people use every HP in their engine? If they ever do, how long is that burst? Only long enough to pass (hopefully) one car. We could leave the 5MW in the (cap) bank, reducing total neutron emission and number of maintenance cycles in some cases. Eventually another pulse would fill the output bank back up.

Now this is where it gets dangerous, because I’m thinking of limiting the power out through a bunch of system safeguards that reek of paddlewheel riverboat boiler relief valves being tied down. Ya just can’t make something foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

What I’m getting at is that 480 training and licensing is much more available, and it supports the goal of cheap distributed power.