Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > GURPS

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 11-09-2014, 03:06 PM   #15
DaltonS
 
DaltonS's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Hamilton, Ont. CANADA
Default Re: Closed Cycle Hydrogen Fuel Cell Question

Murphy’s Rules: I’ve heard of fuel efficiency, but…
Blurb: In GURPS Spaceships, at TL7 a Chemical Refinery (p.19) can produce 4× the rocket fuel that a Fuel Cell (p.20) needs to power it.
Details:
In GURPS Spaceships, a TL7 Fuel Cell (p.20) using hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket fuel can produce 1 Power Point for three hours on internal fuel plus four times that (12 hours) for each fuel tank … which can filled by a Chemical Refinery (p.19) in 3 to 3 1/3 hours for 1 power point and a tank of water. Thus, each Power Point Hour of fuel cell energy can process up to four Power Point Hours worth of fuel. Since this is a closed system, if the fuel cell’s tanks are filled it can operate indefinitely and still provide power for other systems 72%-75% of the time. (And this is just at TL7; fuel cell efficiency doubles for each of the next three tech levels.)

Dalton “Yeah, I know it's unrealistic, but that's the point! Spence
DaltonS is offline   Reply With Quote
 

Tags
gurps, power points, spaceships

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 06:19 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.