Rimworld Plasma Fusion Reactor

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Feb 20, 2017 A cold fusion reactor for late-game power. Harness the power of the stars, without the real estate and safety headaches that usually come with owning a colossal sphere of hydrogen/helium plasma. Features:. Mod content is unlocked by researching the ship reactor research node. New Building: Cold Fusion Reactor. Requires 100 Plasteel, 25. RimWorld plays this both forwards and backwards, as the background concept is that on any given rim world there are distinct cultures that interact with each other but are nonetheless living at very different tech levels. In game terms, your own faction begins at either 'tribal' or 'colony' (space-faring but stranded) level, which dictates.

Map color

Health

1000

Stack size

50

Range

24

Shooting speed

1.5/s

Damage

20 laser

Dimensions

2×2

Energy consumption

1.2 MW (electric)

Drain

24 kW (electric)

Mining time

0.5

Prototype type

Internal name

laser-turret

Required technologies

Boosting technologies

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Laser turrets are an advanced defense building with longer range than the gun turret, infinite ammo, good damage and use electricity to operate (and a smaller amount of energy when idle). By dealing laser damage, they don't face any resistances (enemies receive full damage) but have a lower rate of fire than gun turrets. Each shot costs 800kJ of energy; as the shooting speed increases through upgrades, so does the power required to keep firing.

Rimworld plasma fusion reactor mini prototype

Using laser turrets to ward off attacks can cause electricity usage spikes, these can be offset by using accumulators (or steam storage and excess steam turbines).

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Plasma

The Fusion Reactor will not start on its own. It requires an outside burst of energy from a charged Laser Amplifier and a small amount of D-T Fuel to begin the fusion process. Once the reaction is jump started, it will begin consuming supplied Deuterium and Tritium, creating plasma and generating power. The reactor, called a tokamak, is derived from designs first tested in the Soviet Union. Lasers and powerful electromagnets are arrayed around a supercooled, doughnut-shaped container to hold. So in Glitter tech there is this Plasma Fusion Reactor that gives out a FUCK TON of power, yet is so hard to build. So i did the math and made an ingredient list (please correct me if there are mistakes) Plasma Fusion Reactor:-2,400 Steel-320 Titanium-14 Uranium-48.

Gallery

  • Laser turret firing.

  • A gif of the laser turret rotating. (Pre 1.0)

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Achievements

Reactor
Raining bullets

Win the game without building any laser turrets.

History

  • 0.17.0:
    • New graphics.
    • Laser turret now use new laser beams.
  • 0.15.0:
    • Laser turret projectiles move much faster.
  • 0.12.0:
    • All turrets now have a 2x2 footprint.
    • Made 4x as powerful and expensive.
  • 0.9.0:
    • Change to recipe.
  • 0.7.1:
    • Decreased resting energy consumption of laser turret to 1/3 of original value.
  • 0.7.0:
    • Added upgrade technologies.
  • 0.3.0:
    • New graphics
  • 0.1.0:
    • Introduced

See also

Weapons

  • Pistol
  • Submachine gun
  • Shotgun
  • Combat shotgun
  • Rocket launcher
  • Flamethrower
  • Land mine
  • Firearm magazine
  • Piercing rounds magazine
  • Uranium rounds magazine
  • Shotgun shells
  • Piercing shotgun shells
  • Cannon shell
  • Explosive cannon shell
  • Uranium cannon shell
  • Explosive uranium cannon shell
  • Artillery shell
  • Rocket
  • Explosive rocket
  • Atomic bomb
  • Flamethrower ammo
  • Grenade
  • Cluster grenade
  • Poison capsule
  • Slowdown capsule
  • Defender capsule
  • Distractor capsule
  • Destroyer capsule
  • Light armor
  • Heavy armor
  • Modular armor
  • Power armor
  • Power armor MK2
  • Portable solar panel
  • Portable fusion reactor
  • Personal battery
  • Personal battery MK2
  • Belt immunity equipment
  • Exoskeleton
  • Personal roboport
  • Personal roboport MK2
  • Nightvision
  • Energy shield
  • Energy shield MK2
  • Personal laser defense
  • Discharge defense
  • Discharge defense remote
  • Wall
  • Gate
  • Gun turret
  • Laser turret
  • Flamethrower turret
  • Artillery turret
  • Artillery targeting remote
  • Radar
  • Rocket silo

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Update: As has been pointed out by several, this is a patent application, not a patent itself. ExtremeTech apologizes for this error. This does, however, seem to answer several of the issues surrounding the vagueness of the patent.

Fusion power has been the Holy Grail of clean energy for decades. Now the US Navy has secured a patent on a compact fusion reactor design that would revolutionize the world — if it works. The entire situation is something of a muddle, even by the standards of the US Trade and Patent Office, which is really saying something.

Let’s start at the beginning. Fusion could provide enormous amounts of energy with none of the waste problems associated with fission-based nuclear power production. Because deuterium can be extracted from seawater, there’s enough existent material on Earth to meet our planetary energy needs for millions of years, vastly outstripping the recoverable reserves of any other fossil fuel. Deployed in space, fusion rockets would vastly accelerate space travel. One 1998 paper estimated a round trip time from Earth to Mars of just 130 days. At present, it takes 150-300 days to reach Mars from Earth depending on the relative position of the two planets.

Fusion is incredibly efficient, incredibly powerful, and currently completely unavailable outside of nuclear weapons or the Sun. Scientists have not discovered how to break even on energy production. To date, the energy required to maintain a fusion reaction has been higher than the energy we can extract from the process. Any discovery that moves us forward towards achievable, cost-effective fusion power is a critical one, whether your interests are in reducing CO2 emissions, exploring space, or providing reliable baseline power that’s immune to meltdown and runaway reactions.

Here’s the tokamak at the JET fusion lab in the UK, a smaller version of the tokamak that will eventually be installed at ITER.

The patent granted to the Navy is for a “plasma compression fusion” device, but the document is rather vague on how these gains are achieved. Phrases like “It is a feature of the present invention to provide a plasma compression fusion device that generates energy gain by plasma compression-induced nuclear fusion,” are nearly tautological in their construction. Elsewhere, the document claims: “It is a feature of the present invention to provide a plasma compression fusion device that can produce power in the gigawatt to terawatt range (and higher), with input power in the kilowatt to megawatt range.”

Remember what we said about the difficulty of getting to net-positive power? This patent is basically claiming it can sidestep all such problems. That’s another part of why I’m fundamentally uncertain what to think here; the author is claiming his invention can yield gigawatt-level energy from kilowatt input, or terawatt output with megawatt input. It would be a momentous achievement for us to get megawatt-level output from a smaller number of megawatts of input at this point. Granted, patents are allowed to look forward towards what they expect will be achievable in the future, but again, it’s not clear where these improvements are coming from.

This clears everything up.

Supposedly the reactor is also capable of fusion ignition, a self-sustaining reaction in which the energy produced by the reactor is high enough to heat the fuel mass quicker than various loss mechanisms can cool it. Ignition is an even more advanced goal than achieving a break-even point, because break-even explicitly ignores energy lost to the reactor’s surroundings. Ignition does not, and is therefore required any practical commercial reactor. But again, claiming to have solved the ignition problem before we’ve even managed to break even on net power production is a huge claim to make.

Furthermore, as The Drive has detailed in an extensive report, the author behind this patent, Salvatore Cezare Pais, has a history of filing very strange patents. Pais works as an aerospace engineer at the Navy’s top aircraft test base. One of his previous patents describes a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” The craft is supposedly capable of creating a “quantum vacuum” around itself, allowing it to repel air and water molecules with which it comes in contact, and allowing for incredible speed and maneuverability. As The Drive summarized in that instance:

[I]f you can a) create a room temperature superconductor capable of storing an incredibly high amount of energy and b) get the energy field created by that superconductor moving at incredibly high speeds around or within the craft, you can create a polarized energy vacuum around it which allows it to basically ignore the energy of the air or water around it, thereby removing its own inertia and mass from the equation.

But Pais isn’t just a crackpot with a Gmail account. When the USTPO pushed back on awarding him a patent related to this supposed discovery, the CTO of the US Naval Aviation Enterprise, Dr. James Sheehy, wrote to the patent office to vouch for its legitimacy. The relationship between this event and the Navy’s willingness to confirm the legitimacy of UFO videos released last month is a subject of ongoing speculation.

The Drive notes that every physicist it has spoken to about Pais’ patents, including this one, “thinks all of these patents are beyond the realm of known physics and are almost laughable in terms of viability.” The Navy has been categorically unwilling to discuss why it thinks otherwise. The end result of all this is that the Navy now has a patent on a type of compact nuclear reactor that could solve just about every energy problem facing the human race today, but has revealed nothing about whether we’re any closer to building the kind of device it supposedly patented.

Clear as mud.

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