tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post7867736281867254771..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: “In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon”TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-9533851120386307382023-03-29T11:32:16.188-04:002023-03-29T11:32:16.188-04:00Just to clarify: 80 kW would be the max continuou...Just to clarify: 80 kW would be the max continuous power required to maintain the superconducting magnetostatic field. The field circuits themselves would be high-ampacity HTS, with MA currents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-13627927147805480362023-03-28T23:59:51.653-04:002023-03-28T23:59:51.653-04:00Panic Town was a fun hard sci-fi read, very imagin...Panic Town was a fun hard sci-fi read, very imaginative and earthy. I won't say in public the bits that made me chuckle the most.<br /><br />I noticed the application of superconductors throughout. That tech could certainly play a role, especially as HTS cost drops. You envisioned a loop config to shield the crater city, "Port Rosario", and that's understandable. When I started modeling HTS circuits under cosmic rays, for just such a shield, loops were baseline. I inserted solenoids and half-solenoid segments, then I rotated circuits sideways, adjusted separations, and anchored all to crater walls.<br /><br />The optimized design would protect a city with a shaped field adhering to safety limit on the crater floor -- an important but tricky consideration. The design maximizes deflections per amp; a 9 km crater would be shielded with < 80 kW. <br /><br />Possibly of interest. Ping if curious. :-)<br /><br />https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119761990.ch11<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com