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annodomini2
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Jolly Roger wrote: According to information in the patent application, the maximum net output of each reactor vessel is 5 MW Alpha beam and 2 MW X-rays. With conversion losses, that would be about 5 – 6 MW electricity. However, the capacitor bank, which is the most massive component, can power up to 500 reactor vessels, so total installation output could be as high as 2.5 – 3 GW.

A 2,000 TW application would require 666,667 – 800,000 FF installations.

I will leave it to others with more information to correct mine and/or calculate the mass and volume.

Big then, could be interesting

Is there any scalable possibility for the technology?