CONCEPT / NOT A PLANT
Flip the hall’s breakers and watch a conceptual Z-pinch follow the bus. Current, field, fusion glow, and a toy AC tap update in real time.
Open the simulatorPrimary
Switches take effect immediately. The column and the magnetic gauges ease over τ. Hotel load stays on the bus.
12 + 100% × 65 = 77.0 kW
FOLLOWING
HIGH DRAW
Column width follows radius a. Glow follows fusion intensity. Dashed rings are azimuthal Bθ. Bars enter when a breaker is on.
Numbers are scaled for play. Not a plant, not Q>1, not a construction guide.
Readout
The lit chip follows the last control. Breakers, presets, and demand light “Load → current.” A gauge opens its own lesson. Gold inset means the gauges are still easing.
Concept
The same lessons as the chips, with the toy’s bookkeeping written out. Still a picture, not a device.
01
Inductance in the pinch circuit stores energy in the magnetic field, the way a flywheel stores spin. When the bus draw changes, Iz, Bθ, column radius, fusion glow, and toy AC power ease over τ = 0.5 + 0.03 Pload seconds. The breakers flip at once. Only the field lags.
02
The toy imagines a resonant tank around the column, locked at 60 Hz, so the tap is already alternating current. Voltage scales with the square root of load. There is no turbine and no boiler on this page.
03
A Z-pinch’s confining field circles the axial current. Bθ grows as Iz rises and radius a shrinks, and this toy then marks fusion intensity as (Pload / 20 kW)2. The glow is that bookkeeping. There is no plasma in the room.
Scales
Three ways to picture the same idea. None of them is a shopping list or a site plan. Longer readings, including one further scale, are in the white papers.
01
A bench story: lamps on a bus and a column you can watch tighten. It teaches the shape of load-following. It does not fuse nuclei.
02
Picture a fenced hall, a viewport, and instruments aimed at a pulsed column. This page does not specify hardware, fuels, or a procedure.
03
Imagine a city bus whose draw a pinch tries to follow. Useful as a picture of load-following. Not a site plan and not an output promise.
White papers
Four educational thought experiments, one per scale. They use this page’s toy: discrete breakers, hotel load always on, a lag τ, and a 60 Hz tap. Open a card, then read the full text here. The simulator stays the thing to do.
Standby is the hotel 12 kW alone, and the column stays lit. Close only Facility lights and the bus is 20 kW, the toy’s reference: 100 kA, 8 mm, 2.5 T, easing over about a second. Proof-of-concept here means the story fits on a bench. It is not a parts list and not a fusion result.
Same breakers, still fully on or fully off. The demand slider multiplies switched loads only, so Lab day is 77 kW at 100% and 44.5 kW at 50%, with hotel stuck at 12 kW. Garage names the scale of attention: one room and a bus. It does not mean a home build or house power.
The page opens on lights, HVAC, and the diagnostic bay: 77.0 kW, about 196 kA toy, about 6 T toy, easing over 2.81 s, 60 Hz locked. The coupled-output gauge reads 159.79 kW because the toy cubes the bus. That crossing is algebra, not Q. Prototype here means a prototype of the question, not a machine to procure.
Every breaker closed is a 212 kW bus, a HIGH DRAW badge that does not trip, and a coupled-output figure in the thousands of toy kilowatts. The paper prints that figure next to the cube so it cannot be mistaken for supply. The scale is the shape of a lumpy computing-hall bus, hotel floor included. It is not an offer of power.
About
An educational concept simulator. Named breakers stand in for a hall’s electrical draw, and a toy Z-pinch load-follows that draw. The point is to feel electromagnetic inertia, an azimuthal field, and a 60 Hz tap by using the bank. The white papers walk that same toy from a tabletop picture through a datacenter-supply picture.
Numbers are scaled for play. Not a plant, not Q>1, not a construction guide. Not a prospectus, not a fuel cycle, and not evidence that this scheme has made net power.