[TML] Transportation solutions.

[Richard Aiken]

On 10/12/07, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2007 at 3:12, Antony Farrell wrote:
> > Even puncturing this tank
> > with an incendiary would not cause it to explode and the hydrogen could be
> > tapped off for use in engines.
>
> It winds up as a hyride or otherwise absorbed into the metal. The
> problem is that the absorb release rates are a bit marginal. And
> since the metals that work are rather dense and rather expensive, the
> expense are energy density are more than a bit high.

Ah.  So - connecting this with the "Molding Ships" thread - all those
metals out in the asteroids (the ones that we can mine and refine so
relatively cheaply) are what make hydrogen-fueled vehicles practical
for Traveller worlds?

-- 
Richard Aiken

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