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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 18:43:53 GMT
I am not talking about CDE NEFPs but the NEFP's and Casaba Howitzer from matterbeam. You use alot magnetic bottle fusion. Did you thought about using MHD and a MPDT? An 200GW p-B11 engine barely produces 25kN, but an MPDT with 100GW thrust power generates 1.4 MN while having an Isp high enough that using an mass ratio of 2 is sufficant to provide 100km/s delta-v. ironclad6 I only worked out how to roughly model it a couple of days ago and right now I'm sort of in love with the stuff. The big thing to consider is that a combat unit that retains no capacity for independent action really has no value to a commander. It doesn't give her any options that she didn't already have. The thing I love about magnetically confined fusion is that it gives you the blend of DV and thrust required while maintaining broad technical commonality with existing systems which means I only have to train one set of engineers. This means I can spend my military budget of fighting men, not REMFS. That said, p-B11 is obviously impossible to fit on a lightweight drone, so some variation has to be accepted. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 18:48:20 GMT
I am not talking about CDE NEFPs but the NEFP's and Casaba Howitzer from matterbeam. You use alot magnetic bottle fusion. Did you thought about using MHD and a MPDT? An 200GW p-B11 engine barely produces 25kN, but an MPDT with 100GW thrust power generates 1.4 MN while having an Isp high enough that using an mass ratio of 2 is sufficant to provide 100km/s delta-v. ironclad6 I only worked out how to roughly model it a couple of days ago and right now I'm sort of in love with the stuff. The big thing to consider is that a combat unit that retains no capacity for independent action really has no value to a commander. It doesn't give her any options that she didn't already have. The thing I love about magnetically confined fusion is that it gives you the blend of DV and thrust required while maintaining broad technical commonality with existing systems which means I only have to train one set of engineers. This means I can spend my military budget of fighting men, not REMFS. That said, p-B11 is obviously impossible to fit on a lightweight drone, so some variation has to be accepted. And what about the idea to use an MPDT on your Whisker IV to produce thrust more efficantly? |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 18:50:01 GMT
I only worked out how to roughly model it a couple of days ago and right now I'm sort of in love with the stuff. The big thing to consider is that a combat unit that retains no capacity for independent action really has no value to a commander. It doesn't give her any options that she didn't already have. The thing I love about magnetically confined fusion is that it gives you the blend of DV and thrust required while maintaining broad technical commonality with existing systems which means I only have to train one set of engineers. This means I can spend my military budget of fighting men, not REMFS. That said, p-B11 is obviously impossible to fit on a lightweight drone, so some variation has to be accepted. And what about the idea to use an MPDT on your Whisker IV to produce thrust more efficantly? Yeah I am looking into that right now. Looking for ~4MN if possible. It doesn't look like I can make P4 work, even if I wanted to. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 18:53:56 GMT
And what about the idea to use an MPDT on your Whisker IV to produce thrust more efficantly? Yeah I am looking into that right now. Looking for ~4MN if possible. It doesn't look like I can make P4 work, even if I wanted to. You mean P4 in Magnetic confined fusion? Hahahaha. As I said boron requires tens of billions of kelvin or heavy parricle accelerators. And P4 is waaay harder. You are practically left with D-He3. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 18:55:53 GMT
Yeah I am looking into that right now. Looking for ~4MN if possible. It doesn't look like I can make P4 work, even if I wanted to. You mean P4 in Magnetic confined fusion? Hahahaha. As I said boron requires tens of billions of kelvin or heavy parricle accelerators. And P4 is waaay harder. You are practically left with D-He3. Yeah. Within the technological limitations of my setting I don't think there's any way to make P4 work, even on immense capital ships. I'll look at D-He3 and then MPDT. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 18:56:10 GMT
And what about the idea to use an MPDT on your Whisker IV to produce thrust more efficantly? Yeah I am looking into that right now. Looking for ~4MN if possible. It doesn't look like I can make P4 work, even if I wanted to. I have an MPDT with 3.91MN lying. It has 513km/s exhaust velocity. But it requires an terawatt. Or 3 of my 144km/s MPDT |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 19:06:01 GMT
Yeah I am looking into that right now. Looking for ~4MN if possible. It doesn't look like I can make P4 work, even if I wanted to. I have an MPDT with 3.91MN lying. It has 513km/s exhaust velocity. But it requires an terawatt. Or 3 of my 144km/s MPDT I'd love a look at your 144km/sec mpdt. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 19:18:07 GMT
I have an MPDT with 3.91MN lying. It has 513km/s exhaust velocity. But it requires an terawatt. Or 3 of my 144km/s MPDT I'd love a look at your 144km/sec mpdt. Cathode: 2.9 mm Chamber: 31 cm Anode: 2.3 mm Thruster: 2.1cm Van-Chrom-Steel Van-Chrom-Steel Polyethylene Xenon 520 kA Lithium 4.5 cm 439 RPM Cant find an option to attach pictures on the mobile version, sorry. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 19:30:11 GMT
Interesting. I'm currently comparing this against the D-He3 rocket I just built. Interestingly, the D-He3 design seems much much more fragile than her boron fueled cousin. That might make the case for the MPDT design.
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 19:41:15 GMT
Interesting. I'm currently comparing this against the D-He3 rocket I just built. Interestingly, the D-He3 design seems much much more fragile than her boron fueled cousin. That might make the case for the MPDT design. What you mean with fragile? |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 19:44:24 GMT
That MPDT requires almost a hundred gigawatts of onboard power. There's no way to fit that in a Whisker.
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 19:55:07 GMT
That MPDT requires almost a hundred gigawatts of onboard power. There's no way to fit that in a Whisker. You've most likely put an multi terawatt fusion on it before. In your lore fusion engines are basically fusion reactors with magnetic nozzle. With MHDs you can convert 50% of the fusion thrust power into electricity. If an 600kg 200GW MC-Fusion repurposes its magnetic nozzle as an MHD you can get 100GW of power. Just make an black box reactor with sufficant energy. Name it Stellerator. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 30, 2017 19:56:36 GMT
Aaah. That means I have to mash my way through the end of the game.
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 20:00:47 GMT
Aaah. That means I have to mash my way through the end of the game. Huh, what you mean? I have them. And I never really completed the game. Infolinks, Concept, Unlocking Content and mods |
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Post by bigbombr on Aug 30, 2017 20:02:27 GMT
Aaah. That means I have to mash my way through the end of the game. You can also unlock everything with the press of a button: Main Menu -> Infolinks -> Concept -> Unlocking Content and Mods -> button at bottom right |
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