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Plasma based powering network

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Some pieces of equipment on board your vessel may require huge power dense energy supplies to drive them. A standard electrical supply may not be enough, these devices may need to be driven by a futuristic power source beyond the capability of standard metals to conduct. Piped plasma could be a solution, this idea is not new, but could provide the infrastructure for a new network system to deliver energy to the most demanding elements of modern space flight.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

User review : I bought one of these and it was just the best. Use it on all of my ships now. 11/10!

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Rory Delvino ●

You thought supercapacitors were awesome? Try Hypercapacitors™!

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Deon Beauchamp ●

It appears that using plasma is useful for chip manufacturing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitively_coupled_plasma

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Semtex ●

What is the current intensity and what voltages are used?

How much power does this plasma transmit?

I would say that a standard extension cord transmits more power...

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Deon Beauchamp ●

30KA @10^8V

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Semtex ●

3 TW? 8-Ó

Global electricity generation capacity stood at approximately 9.4 terawatts (TW) in 2023

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Deon Beauchamp ●

9.4TW would be the man made electricity.

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Semtex ●

If you mean lightning, lightning has typically energy 1-5MJ, or approximately 0.28-1.4kWh...

or the equivalent 0,25-1,25kg TNT.... for dissipation, a 100mm2 iron wire conductor is sufficient...

But - the highest recorded/calculated energy in a one lightning reach up to seven billion joules (7 GJ). There probably is no man-made structure that could withstand such a lightning strike without consequences...

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Tael ●

...What?

SE1's large grid large reactor outputs only 300MW, SE2 reactors probably wont be that much more powerful. What are you building that needs 10,000 such reactors to power it?

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Semtex ●

Yeah, it's roughly around those numbers, in the terrawatt range. (the biggest lightning bolt).

And 300 MW of electrical power is no small amount – the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier had two Westinghouse A4W reactors with a thermal output of 500 MW each. Each provided steam for a turbo aggregate with output of ~100 MW on shaft (140,000hp) and ~100 MW of electrical power.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

Current rating for power carriers are should always be higher than the intended normal :)

and there is a lot of electricity in space.

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Semtex ●

But yes, I accept that. Engines, energy sources, etc. must be many times more efficient in the game than in reality. But for God's sake, let it be logically consistent. Let the laws of conservation of energy, mass, and momentum apply. And let the same rules apply to everyone.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

No problem, please feel free to make a suggestion on power range.

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Semtex ●

You write "to transfer energy." What kind of energy? Heat? Radiation? Electricity? How do you imagine it? My vision would be "traditional"—a bluish glowing tube with a bubble on it saying "There's flow a tremendous amount of energy."

OK. From where and to where? How will you produce the plasma – and how will you consume it? What will you do with it?

I don't want to be mean, but it seems to me that you just want a nice visual effect...

Nothing better than transmitting electricity through metal conductors has been invented yet. High-temperature superconductors would be suitable for transmitting large amounts of electricity. For example, from supercapacitors to a jump drive... But even in the best visual design, they look very ordinary – almost like regular thick cables...

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Deon Beauchamp ●

Simply put, the containment pipes hold a structured matter filament that in a high vibrational state The filament operates as a charged bi-rotational torsion field with multiple opposing layers. This will carry all matter types and have a full spectrum EM signature distributed over sets of harmonic intervals. The filament is fractal, and is dynamically 're-pathing' its sub-structure constantly. Between the walls of the containment vessel and the filament is bulk standard layered plasma.The containment vessel is a glass like thick-thin film laminate tube with a skin layer EM field producing high temperature superconductor.

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Semtex ●

As you write... And as I wrote...

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Tael ●

It would seem the goal is to add a "cool and functional" block to the game, and the request has inadvertently managed to entirely skip over also asking for things like the inclusion of a base system of needing to properly run electrical conduits from a power-supply to something needing to be powered for the requested plasma conduits to be the pinnacle of.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

I am now of the opinion that plasma conduits as described are too advanced for SE2 and would be game breaking. They do not fit into the time/tech period of the game and would infer other technologies reducing the diversity of engineering and logistic problems, it is a bit like smart phones replacing so many different types of consumer product.

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