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so in the end i've had to account for energy conversion which produces about 100kW per reactor at 50% efficiency to electrical energy (50kW) by my determination, and as the control equipment eats 10kW you effectively get 40
which is a pretty solid supply but you still need to charge your supercapacitors for hours on end and that's fine because that's the major limitation in the Microcosm; ftl is incredibly slow but it still works

(panting) that concludes my ted talk

but it turns out that heating fusion products for sustained fusion is really difficult even in a tokamak, which is the technology i'm using as a basis for my fusion generators. you have to heat the fusion reactants to an incredibly high temperature in order to achieve continuous and sustained fusion, which is nigh impossible considering the temperature of such a reaction is somewhere in the hundreds of millions of degrees, something that i've purposely overlooked because i don't have an answer

through this research i found that neutrons from fusion products can be collected by electrostatic 'baffles', kinda like a silencer except they utilise the incredible energy potential within those loose neutrons and turn them directly into electrical energy, something i can barely comprehend but it has an efficiency of about 50% on the test bed
and then i had to figure out a good fuel source and ended up going for a deuterium-tritium reactor but i was tempted by pure h2 as it's already available

i am not joking i literally had to look up electrostatic direct energy conversion for toroidal fusion reactors because my space-age ftl technology uses super-powerful magnets to create magnetic envelopes that isolate spacetime for a split second and can be translated great distances dependent of mass within the envelope and the power of the electromagnets in question, and that sort of power requires large arrays of supercapacitors capable of delivering thousands of megawatts near-instantaneously

me: *does extensive research on space-faring vehicles and their electrical and fuel systems *
me: * applies research to worldbuilding project to further cement the science of my spaceships*
me: * does not share this with anyone but a few people*

me: i should share this with someone

getting fucked up in the philosophical implications of complex system theory. this is my shit

i am an aluminium baseball bat entering a police car's windshield at a significant speed

garbage man fucks up the internet for everyone

i could post this out-of-context and it would automatically be relevant to any given issue occurring within the mastodon sphere of influence

i'm not sure if anyone else with autism/add experiences this but i have this tendency to thrash in my sleep. like i'm talking sometimes i find pillows halfway across the room. it's not harmful or anything, i just wonder if other people experience it

something that still sorta fucks me up is the idea that electrons exist in clouds around their atoms.

despite being pretty deterministic, like there's a set number of atoms per orbit and it's mostly dependent on atomic weight and ionic state, the fact that you can't really determine where an electron is at any given time

the action of observing an electron in a given position fundamentally changes it in a way that determines its position. its a lil mindblowing