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But true, chasing high efficiency can lead to over designing an old technology making it less effective in the one niche it out performs newer techs.
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03-21-2015, 04:48 PM | #52 |
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Re: [Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts
One thing I've got to work out is how fast the original colony ships went. Depending upon how much boost I give them (Which is partly dependent upon TL) I'm getting figures ranging from 550 years at the high end, right down to 37 years at the low end
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03-21-2015, 06:40 PM | #53 |
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Well, if your definition of "huge" includes objects that are cylinders some 22 cm in diameter and 40 cm long, weighing about 300 kg. It doesn't really take much demand for electricity before fission reactors are more efficient than RTGs.
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03-21-2015, 06:56 PM | #54 | |
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SNAP-10 was an experiment. The Soviets did a lot more with fission reactors in space, with 3 kW and 5 kW models (ten times the power for three times the weight of SNAP-10). They have current plans for ones up to a megawatt. RTGs are used for spacecraft with more modest power requirements. |
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03-21-2015, 09:16 PM | #56 | |
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So lets say that you have a "level one hyperspnace shunt". You can only reach level of hyperspace without aid. Level one of hyperspace is what's called a "co-ordinate" dimension where every point in one dimension has a corresponding point in normal space. Only in H1 those points are much closer together. Higher levels of hyperspace are even "smaller" compared to normal space. So what you have on your ship is a "hypershunt" that enables you reach a specified level of hyperspace (and probably lower ones too). You still need to the same propulsion system you use in normal space to cover distance. Weber's starships 8se their "gravitic impeller wedges" in both normal and hyperspace (yes, I'm skipping over Warshawski sails and grav waves as unhelpful additional sources of confusion). So I think this is basically what you men but phrased in what other people might find less confusing verbiage.
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