I am not following the PBEM, but as for hydrogen explosions I do know that if
you mix oxygen with hydrogen you will get a rapid exothermic reaction
(an explosion).
Since you are human, that would mean that you do have oxygen supplied on
board. It does not need to be pure oxygen but the same misture as we breath
(79% N2 21% O2).
Now lets talk Traveller: How would you produce a fusion explosion?
Well, I am not all that familar with fusion, but what if you had a small fission
fission reactor, thus able to produce deuterium and tritium. Release the
mixture in a small sphere, containing the heavy hydrogen at a high pressure:
say a few GPa. Then fire a high energy laser beam at the sphere, thus produciu ing
enough energy to activate fusion. Would this produce fusion? Maybe....
The real question is how much energy would it release?
Now for another thought, what if you planted a large bomb on a vessel that would
fire a high energy laser into the fuel tanks? I doubt fusion would occur, be
because less than 0.01 % would be heavy hydrogen.
Steven B. Fellows
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