Notes from a project for building a Type-S simulator

The first section is about the fusion plant and has some details
relevant to this thread.

Might be a useful cut-and-paste player  handout for some games.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ACeaou6_rA-gzH9t030yh7pGFrBumhgKfqgjvOeI--c/edit

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>
> WOW!
>
> Sounds downright COSMIC!
>
> I'd sure be interested in a little more elaboration!
>
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> On Sun, 3/26/17, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [TML] starting your ship
>  To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
>  Date: Sunday, March 26, 2017, 10:53 AM
>
>  I used to work in an
>  environment where the power systems were rather important -
>  we were "allowed" 5 min of planned downtime a
>  year.
>
>  We had batteries in
>  each equipment rack with 1 hr run time each. A room based
>  battery for the datacenter with 2 hours runtime. A hydrogen
>  fuel cell which could run the facility for 2 months. A
>  diesel generator with 2 weeks fuel. And connections to two
>  separate power grids.
>
>  We
>  tested it monthly.
>
>  First
>  we would cut utility power, and wait for the generator to
>  cut in - that took a few minutes and tested the batteries.
>  Then we would shut down the generator and the fuel cell
>  would take over.
>
>  It was
>  fun to watch the first few times - but then it became pretty
>  routine. :)
>
>
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