For most folks who come here any effort involved is a secondary effort. A little focus is all that is required.Billy Catringer wrote:MSimon wrote:The question is important. It ought to be studied.
It is not currently on the critical path.
Look at it this way: if an operating prototype has a real Q of 2 then a 3X to 5X improvement is a big deal. If the Operating Q is 10 or above a Q improvement of 3X to 5X does not gain you much. OTOH reactor building size and cost is definitely helped by a smaller reactor.
In any case I am just a fiend about critical paths.
We do need to hammer out a schedule of some kind. I don't have any scheduling software on my machine. That was a deliberate choice because somewhere along the way I got sick of scheduling and started turning down that kind of work. Geez! I'm thinking about doing a PERT chart in Blender. I think I'll take an aspirin and lie down for a little while.
Here lies the critical path!
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.