Measurement of “bare” Hyperion Reactor COP (i.e. total energy consumed versus energy produced)
Got to plug it in or does it run on batteries? Not a self sustaining reactor?
Total energy consumed versus USEFUL/USABLE energy produced.
1:20 (energy in:energy out). As further progress is made in understanding and tuning the process and the hardware, that will probably increase.
Think of the reactor as like your car engine....it needs a large amount of input power to start up, and then a continuous trickle of power to keep going. It is also mode similar to a Diesel....still needs a large amount of input power to start up, but no further power to keep going.....but is "more cantankerous" than the engine WITH the continuous trickle. But in both cases, the output power is gigantic compared to the "input" power.