SHEET 0 | Master Power & Thermal Budget

Giga-Watt Scale Energy Accounting

SYSTEM-WIDE POWER DISTRIBUTION

The STR-01 operates strictly within a closed thermodynamic loop. Every Joule extracted from the D-D Tokamak must be accounted for either as Space-Time Curvature (T₀₀) or Entropy (Heat). Unaccounted heat directly threatens the superconducting state of the FSS-02 coils.

Subsystem Unit	Operational Flow	Energy Allocation	Time Scale
PWR-03-A D-D Tokamak	Continuous Baseline Generation	+ 2.50 GW	Continuous
PWR-03-B Supercaps	Charge Cycle Loading	54.40 GW (Cap)	4.84s (Charge)
PWR-03-C MOSFETs	Snap Pulse Discharge	- 54.4 GW	< 1.0 ms
MD-01-A Filament	Energy-to-Curvature Conversion	1.14 GW (94.5%)	1.0 ms
STR-06 / GATE-02	Entropy / Joule Heat Waste	0.07 GW (5.5%)	Bleed/Radiate

Thermodynamic Constraints & Quench Horizons

54 MJ SNAP SCALING & THE 70 MW QUENCH

A 54.4 GW pulse delivered in 1 millisecond explicitly yields 54 Megajoules (MJ) of total energy. While this scales perfectly for the Z-Pinch compression (Sandia MagLIF baseline), the surrounding geometry strictly limits thermal bleeding to prevent Superconductor Flash-Boiling.

Even with 94.5% electrical-to-metric conversion efficiency (Top-Hat geometry vs spherical), the 5.5% loss during the 54.4 GW Snap produces ~70 Mega-Watts of transient heat. The FSS-02 REBCO ribbons must remain below their 25 K critical quench threshold, demanding zero heat saturation in the nacelle.

Primary Sync Bleed: The STR-06 Liquid Helium actively extracts heat from the REBCO tapes via the 3D-DMLS Titanium Lattice at a flow rate of exactly 10.5 kg/s.
Radiator Dissipation (GATE-02 Banks): The massive heat load is ultimately shoved out of the ship's architecture and into the stationary GATE-02 Graphene-Carbon radiators, requiring massive surface areas to bleed the spacetime friction without localized melting.
Casimir Bridging: Without the MD-02-A arrays engaging "Metric Softening" (lowering vacuum stiffness), the 54 MJ Snap would ricochet as lethal joule heating. Bending cold space requires Jovian mass; bending excited vacuum requires only GW-scale power.