In which I post about a TL9 solar system

AlexanderHowl · 08-04-2020, 03:21 PM

That is still a superscience system because you are talking about an electrostatic system capable of deflecting 100+ GeV intensity relativistic iron nuclei. For a comparison, a TL9 fusion reactor would likely have electromagnetic or electrostatic fields that are barely capable of containing 20 MeV particles, and they have the advantage that they only have to protect a few square meters. For a system to cover the hundreds of thousands of square meters of a SM+13 system would require TW of energy (around 10 MW per square meter). By comparison, a generous interpretation of a SM+13 fusion power plant has it producing 40 GW (20 GW per power point), which would be around 5% the required energy levels.

08-04-2020, 03:21 PM	#26
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: In which I post about a TL9 solar system That is still a superscience system because you are talking about an electrostatic system capable of deflecting 100+ GeV intensity relativistic iron nuclei. For a comparison, a TL9 fusion reactor would likely have electromagnetic or electrostatic fields that are barely capable of containing 20 MeV particles, and they have the advantage that they only have to protect a few square meters. For a system to cover the hundreds of thousands of square meters of a SM+13 system would require TW of energy (around 10 MW per square meter). By comparison, a generous interpretation of a SM+13 fusion power plant has it producing 40 GW (20 GW per power point), which would be around 5% the required energy levels.