Presumably it’s for emergencies: when the generator is about to blow up (presumably due to the measures to make it micro nullifying the safety advantages of fusion reactors), you want to know how long you have to work with.
If you think about it why would a bomb have a countdown timer? Other than civilian demolitions you wouldn’t want anyone knowing how much time they had left.
Well, it’s kinda nice if you’re the one setting the timer, to know how much time you’re setting it for. It’s not for the benefit of anyone else. I guess you could build said device with a display that you could remove after you set it, but that’d just be more work.
So… why exactly does a generator have a countdown timer?
Presumably it’s for emergencies: when the generator is about to blow up (presumably due to the measures to make it micro nullifying the safety advantages of fusion reactors), you want to know how long you have to work with.
Why not?
If you think about it why would a bomb have a countdown timer? Other than civilian demolitions you wouldn’t want anyone knowing how much time they had left.
Well, it’s kinda nice if you’re the one setting the timer, to know how much time you’re setting it for. It’s not for the benefit of anyone else. I guess you could build said device with a display that you could remove after you set it, but that’d just be more work.