[Spaceships] Reasonable numbers for Refinery Systems / 'Artificial' Fuel?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

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Change the efficiency? Even at 100% efficiency, you shouldn't get more energy out of a given amount of gas than it costs to create that gas mix from water especially given that the gas mix converts back to water as it reacts.

I dunno. I suspect I'm misunderstanding something.

It seems that indeed some sort of misunderstanding occurred.

When I say 50% efficiency, I mean that it would take a refinery X PP×hours of energy input in order to synthesise (or otherwise produce) as much fuel as will be required to get X×50% PP×hours when burned.