New Fusion Reactor by zxaaw
A while ago, I made the first fully destructible fusion reactor. But it was powered by uranium, and I wanted one using pure fusion power. So here we are.
fusion
reactor
rocket
engine
destructible
Comments
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nobodyagain 18th Dec 2023
do this in the console: !set type sprk 0 works like a charm. -
micro 26th Feb 2021
Thanks for the tips. should be exactly what I need. -
Aaron_Is_Here 24th Feb 2021
woah interesting design +1 -
zxaaw 24th Feb 2021
also micro you need more thermal mass than just hydrogen, that way the hydrogen coming in gets heat from the waste gases going out and you can have continuous fusion at ~6000c+ -
zxaaw 24th Feb 2021If you do the NEUT+ELEC reaction, the resulting HYGN is about the same temp as the original NEUT and ELEC, so this reaction occurring inside produces free hot HYGN which instantly fuses, producing more particles. So this reaction is really something you want for a good fusion reactor.
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zxaaw 23rd Feb 2021For every 1 hydrogen input, 11.4 oxygen/CO2 are produced (likely due to the electron+neutron reactions producing extra hydrogen for fusion)
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Merlin1846 23rd Feb 2021
Nice +1 -
zxaaw 23rd Feb 2021(Btw the way I came across this design, I was looking at a sort of high-rate fusion system like this and trying to make it destructible, eventually I made something with a hot end and a cold end which worked, and then tinkered around until I made this one)
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zxaaw 23rd Feb 2021Good luck with your reactor as well :)
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zxaaw 23rd Feb 2021> How do you keep the heat efficancy up? The heat transfer back through the system is quite low since the tube going from hydrogen input to the combustion chamber is quite long, the heat exchanger itself is isolated so as long as it's >5000c NBLE fusion happens (which releases much more heat than HYGN fusion), and when the pressure rises, hot oxygen is passed back and transfers heat to the NBLE once it's done fusing, which increases the efficiency further.