Whoops. Red-face time from the nuclear physicist who hasn't done nuclear
ASTROPHYSICS lately.... I'd forgotten the proton-proton chain, so don't
waste time correcting me, OK? However, deuteron-triton fusion is immensely
easier to get working in terms of favorable fusion conditions, and if the
reactors using deuterons in Trav are as inefficient as the rules say they are
then you can kiss proton-proton fusion goodbye. Unless we postulate that the
Trav reactors ARE proton-proton reactors ALREADY, which would be stupid
considering that at a TL where a crummy proton-proton reactor would work, a
combination deuteron-deuteron reactor and hydrogen enricher would be orders
of magnitude more efficient, and a helium-3 reactor would be easier still
and cleaner and more efficent and--- you get the idea.
metlay