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

[Evyn MacDude]

On  Apr16 08, at 08:42, Peter Brenton wrote:

> I always expected/assumed traveller ships to have a small aux power
> unit (fuel cell?, diesel generator?, thermionic isotope based
> reactor? tiny conventional reactor like this;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S?) and a bank of capacitors
> (not just the jump capacitors, but a few superconducting energy
> storage systems/HPGs) to assist startup and provide electricity in
> times of main plant shutdown.

IMHO, the bootstrap power plant probably will be something like
a Fuel cell, reason being that something simple and easy to fuel
and refuel is preferable.

Evyn MacDude
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