The simple, modular architecture of levitated dipoles is a major advantage as a fusion reactor. Damage to reactor components from high energy particles is unavoidable in a fusion reactor, but for dipoles, their modularity enables every part of the system to be serviced or replaced quickly and easily. This straightforward maintenance minimises the cost of damage and leads to excellent availability of the reactor.
When it comes to power – there is no ‘one size fits all’. The electricity needed to power a few thousand homes for a year might be in the order of 1-5 megawatts (MW), where a city like New York might require upwards of 10-15 gigawatts (GW), while certain new builds for hyperscale data centres are considering the need for devoted power sources at the scale of >2 GW.
The design of the levitated dipole enables a highly flexible capacity output, from 10’s of MW all the way through to GW’s of power, meaning we can provide power generation solutions to a wide range of applications, from captive power to industrial facilities, to data centres, to utility-grid-scale systems.
Combined with the modularity of the dipole reactor, this flexibility enables the rapid deployment of OpenStar levitated dipole reactors almost anywhere across the globe.
