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Modular Gigasite

A distributed lattice of small reactors operating as a single gigawatt-class asset — the civic analog of mitochondrial resonance.

A gigasite is a coherent array of small modular units — typically 50–300 MWe each — sharing balance-of-plant, control, and grid interconnection. The lattice is redundant, expandable, and refueled without site-wide outage.

The topology mirrors distributed mitochondria inside a cell: many small oxidative units held in tensegrity by a shared cytoskeleton. Coherence, not size, is the operating principle.

Airlift-deployable variants fit inside a C-17 envelope; siting shifts from megaproject to civic infrastructure.

// related concepts

TRISO Fuel

Tri-structural isotropic particles — the poppy-seed-sized fuel form at the core of modular high-temperature reactors.

Closed-Loop Helium Brayton Cycle

A waterless power conversion loop — helium as the working fluid, direct or indirect Brayton topology.

Tensegrity Resonance

The scale-invariant geometry linking cellular tensegrity to civic energy lattices.