[TML] Freelance Traveller Contest 2008-01: Lead to some other thoughts, questions and inventions about gravity generators.

[Richard Aiken]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:43 PM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2008 at 0:20, Richard Aiken wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Jerry W Barrington
> > <jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >    maneuver drives that run for a long time on almost no fuel
> >
> > Agreed.  I'm going with total conversion fusion drives, which
> > nevertheless run as fusion air rams when within any sort of atmosphere
> > (to save on fuel).  They still burn hydrogen pretty quick, but they do
> > let you go from planet to jump limit and back a couple of times
> > between refills.
>
> "Total conversion" and fusion are two *different* things. A total
> conversion unit converts 100% of the mass fed into it into Energy.

Sorry, again.  I'm just using the stats from GT:Starships.  I don't
really understand the science.

> So a ton of fuel at 100 tons thrust would last for 6000 seconds or
> 1.67 hours.

Okay.  And the drive exhaust is a blow torch.  Real good reason to
have Star-Wars-type docking bays.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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