[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Tom B]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:19:51AM -0400, Tom B wrote:
> > It is the fact that power plants of a nuclear variety are not
> > terribly adaptable in power output. A 40 MW plant puts out 40 MW.
>
> Fission ones do.  We don't have fusion ones like Traveller ships.
> If/when we do, it seems likely that they would be based on discrete
> "shots" producing a certain amount of energy each, and the rate of
> shots should be much more easily variable than changing the amount of
> useful fission output.


That's an interesting point. I'll speak to a couple of my friends with some
nuclear engineering training and see what their thoughts are. If I dig up
any worthwhile suppositions, I'll post them as follow up.

TomB