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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
The answer would thus have to be that you can't store that energy for very long, .
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I want to warn you against having every Free Trader in the 3I turning 20 tons of hydrogen into energy every time they jump. Per p. 82 of UT annihilating a single gram of antimatter (+ a gram of normal matter) can produce a 43 kiloton explosion.
So if you're talking about total conversion of 20 tons instead of 2 grams you're looking at 2,000,000 x that or 86 gigatons of TNT.
If you only fuse that H2 you're looking at 2 orders of manitude less but have to ask what you did with the fused hydrogen and what about the waste heat? It's easier to think of total conversion being 100% efficient but a fusion power plant that can fuse that quatity of hyrdrogen in 1 Traveller turn and produce
no waste heat is at least two miracles instead of just one.
Jump capaciters are also mentioned in the description of the Black Globe where you can charge your Jump capaciters from the BG but still require "fuel" to Jump.
So you don't turn your fuel into energy and store it in the Jump capacitors.